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| alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem |
| assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds |
| ballad | song that tells a story |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| couplet | 2 consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| figure of speech | word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
| free verse | poetry that doesnt have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| lyric portry | poetry that doesnt tell a story but is aimed only at expressing a speaekrs emotions or thoughts |
| metaphor | comparison between 2 unlike thingsnot using like, as |
| meter | stressed and unstressed syllables |
| onomatopoeia | use of a word that sound imitates or suggest its meaning |
| personification | nonhuman things talked about as if human |
| poetry | type of rhythmic compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the readers emotion |
| regrain | a repeated word phrase, line |
| rhyme | repetition of accented vowell sounds and all close sounds |
| rhythm | musical quality in language produced by repetition |
| simile | figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 unlike things using as, like |
| sonnet | 14 lyric poem |
| speaker | voice that is talking to us |
| stanza | group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| symbol | person place thing that stands for itself and for something else |
| theme | central idea of a work of literature |
| tone | attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |
| end rhyme | rhymes at the ends of lines |
| internal rhyme | rhymes in the middle of a line |
