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| alliteration | two or more words having the same initial sound in a line |
| character | a person in a poem |
| haiku | a three-line Japanese poem usually about nature |
| imagery | a picture created with words |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things by saying one is the other |
| meter | measure rhythm characteristic of verse |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| poetry | a form of writing that uses figurative language and symbolism and is usually intense and condensed |
| onomatopoeia | words that sounds like what they mean |
| theme | the underlying meaning or message of a work of the poem |
| rhythm | the beat created by the words in a line |
| stanza | divisions of a poem composed of two or more lines |
| title | name of the poem |
| speaker | the point of view from which a poem is told |
| simile | a comparison between to unlike things using like or as |
| mood | the feeling found in speech or writing |
| rhyme | a regular repetition of sounds especially at the end of lines |
| hyperbole | a comparison using a huge exaggeration |
| verse | the written line of a poem |
| concrete poem | poetry written in the shape of an object |
| setting | where and when a poem takes place or happens |
