| A | B |
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| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| allusion | brief reference to person, place, event, or work of art (real or ficticious) |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonants usually at the end of words |
| couplet | two lines of poetry - usually rhyming, having the same meter, and completing a thought |
| figurative language | words or expressions that are not literal |
| metaphor | comparison of two unlike things |
| simile | comparison using "like" or "as" |
| personification | giving animals or objects human characteristics |
| symbol | a thing that represents something else |
| free verse | poetry that doesn't rhyme or have a regular meter |
| imagery | language that connects to one or more of the 5 senses |
| meter | rhythm of a piece of poetry |
| mood | emotional feeling created in the reader |
| onomatopoeia | word that imitates the sound it makes |
| parallelism | repetition of similar patterns in phrases or sentences |
| refrain | a phrase or a verse that is repeated |
| rhyme | pattern of words with similar sounds |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhymed words at the end of lines |
| rhythm | poetry lines with a recognizable beat |
| stanza | a group of lines of verse, often separated by a space |
| tone | writer's attitude toward a subject |
| voice | style of writing that conveys the tone |
| style | form and structure used by an author |
