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| aliteration | a series of words using the same beginning letters |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| metaphor | comparison not using "like" or "as" |
| simile | comparison using "like" or "as" |
| slant rhyme | Words that almost rhyme |
| allusion | a reference to something literary |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words |
| stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a poem |
| meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| figurative language | language employing one or more figures of speech (simile |
| free verse | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
| haiku | a Japanese form of poetry |
| imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line |
| lyric poetry | Personal |
| narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story |
| ode | a poem usually addressed to a particular person |
| onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature |
| pun | a humorous play on words |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| speaker | the voice that communicates with the reader of the poem or play; the voice that talks to the audience |
| traditional form | poems that follow certain fixed rules. |
