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| poetry | the most compact form of literature that packs all kinds of ideas, feelings, and sounds |
| speaker | the voice taht "talks" to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction |
| lines | a group of words that may or may not be a sentence |
| stanza | a group of lines |
| form | the appearance of a poem or the way a poem looks |
| sound | what the poet wants the reader to hear |
| rhythm | often called the "beat" of the poem - it is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| rhyme | two words ending with the same sound |
| repetition | the repeating of sounds, words, or phrases |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in words that don't end with the same consonant |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to the five senses |
| simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | a comparison not using "like" or "as" |
| personification | giving an animal or an object human-like qualities |
| mood | the atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that by their sound suggest their meaning |
