| A | B |
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| Speaker | Voice that speaks in a poem. |
| Audience | Person or group a writer is addressing. |
| Monologue | Only one speaker talks. |
| Dialogue | Coversation between two characters. |
| 1st person | I, me |
| 3rd person | he, his, she, hers |
| Narrative poem | a poem that tells a story. |
| Dialect | A particular way of speaking. |
| Persona | when a poet speaks as another person, character or object. |
| Quatrain | A four line stanza, common rhyme schemes in quatrains. |
| Rhyme | repetition of sounds in two or more words. |
| Rhythm | pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| refrain | stanza that repeats |
| Image | A mental picture created with words. |
| Sensory Images | Words and phrases that appeal to your senses. |
| Mood | feeliong that writing creates. |
| Denotation | Dictionary meaning. |
| Connotation | Feeling that words give you. |
| Personification | Something not human that is decribed as human. |
| Symbol | One thing that stands for something else. |
| Simile | Comparison using "like" or "as". |
| Rhyme | Repetition of ending sounds in two or more words. |
| Onomatopoeia | Noise or sound written out in words. |
| Metaphor | Comparison without using "like or "as". |
| Sensory Detail | Words or phrases that describe the way things look, taste, sound, smell or feel. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of beginning cononants. |
| Hyperbole | Large exaggeration. |
