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| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds that come first in a word |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds within words, not first in the word |
| couplet | a two line stanza |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| haiku | a poem of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables each |
| imagery | a mental picture; appeals to the senses |
| metaphor | compares one thing to another without using like or as |
| simile | a figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between ideas that are basically dissimilar |
| personification | gives human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate the sound they make |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words that appear at the ends of lines in a poem |
| repetition | the repeated use of a word, a phrase, or a sentence more than once |
