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| figurative language | language that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true |
| free verse | poetry that is "free" of a regular meter and rhyme scheme |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whos sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
| personification | a special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive |
| poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination |
| rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them |
| end rhyme | rhymes at the ends of lines |
| internal rhymes | rhymes within lines |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem |
| rhythm | a musical quality oproduced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllable or by the repetition of other sound patterns |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using a world such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| stanza | in a poem, a group of lines that form a unit (a paragraph in poetry) |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or character |
| ode | a poem written to honor someone or something of great importance to the speaker |
| Haiku | the most widels known form of Japanese poetry that uses three lines with a total of 17 syllables |
