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| imagery | a description that produces an image in your mind, appealing to the 5 senses |
| simile | a comparison between 2 unlike 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 |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate sounds |
| stanza | a poetic paragraph |
| free verse | poetry without a regular rhythm, meter, or rhyme |
| voice | the writer's personality |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhymed words at the end of a line of poetry |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration that is used for emphasis |
| meter | weak and strong syllables that are stressed to produce a beat |
| rhythm | a pattern of beats produced by meter |
| speaker | the narrator of a poem who may or may not be the poet |
| haiku | a three lined, 17 syllable poem, usually about nature |
| limerick | five line, AABBA rhyme scheme, usually funny |
| ballad | a long story-like poem |
| tone | writ'er attitude toward the subject |
| couplet | stanza with two lines that rhyme |
| quatrain | stanza with four lines |
| mood | emotional atmoshphere produced by word choice |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of a word |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in a word |
| repetition | phrase/word repeated for emphasis several times |
