| A | B |
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| alliteration | consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words |
| end rhyme | when rhyming words come at the end of lines of poetry |
| slant rhyme/half rhyme | when rhyming sounds are similar, but not exact |
| internal rhyme | when rhyming words appear in the same line |
| consonance | consonant sounds repeated at the end of words |
| assonance | vowel sounds repeated in words (not rhyme) |
| onomatopoeia | use of words to imitate sounds |
| personification | a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| imagery | descriptive language that creates word pictures |
| metaphor | comparing two different things by saying one is another |
| simile | using "like" or "as" to compare two things that aren't alike |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| symbolism | something that stands for something else |
| theme | what you are supposed to take away or learn from reading something |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work or art |
| conceit | an exaggerated simile or metaphor |
| metonymy | one word or phrase substituted for another |
| synecdoche | part of something used to mean the whole |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
