| A | B |
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| imagery | word pictures that appeal to the 5 senses |
| voice | the method of which poets use the tools of poetry in individual ways to share his/her view of the world. |
| tone | the attitude an author takes towards a subject. |
| personification | giving characters such as animals or objects the characteristics or qualities of humans |
| hyperbole | an overstatement to show something is important |
| mood | the feeling created by a piece of writing |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that says one thing is another |
| tanka | a form of poetry having 5 lines with 5 syllables in the first, seven in the second, five in the third, and seven in the fourth and fifth |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two things are compared using a phrase that includes the words "like" or "as" |
| figurative language | language that uses word pictures to compare or describe, and that is not meant to be taken as the truth |
| haiku | a form of Japanese poetry having three lines with five syllables in the first, seven in the second, and five in the third |
