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| imagery | language that appeals to the 5 senses: sight, taste, touch, scent, sound |
| simile | a comparison between 2 things using 'like or as' |
| metaphor | a comparison of 2 unlike things in which one is referred to as though it were the other |
| personification | figurative language in which non-human things are given human characteristics |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words close together |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate sounds |
| stanza | a poetic paragraph containing one main idea |
| free verse | poetry without a regular rhythm, meter, or rhyme |
| rhythm | the pattern of stresses or beats in written language |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhymed words at the end of a line of poetry |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration used to emphasize an idea |
| assonance | repitition of vowel sounds in words close together |
| narrative poem | tells a story and has all the elements of fiction |
| speaker | the narrator of a poem who may or may not be the poet |
| connotation | the feelings associated with words; the meanings found outside the dictionary |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word; the literal meaning of a word |
