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| alliteration | the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| figure of speech | a word or phras that decribes one thin in terms of something else and is not literally true |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound echo their sense |
| personification | a nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive |
| refrain | a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech |
| rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem |
| rhythm | a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or rsembles |
| symbol | a person, place, thing, or event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well |
