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| Lyric | Short poem that seems especially musical and which expresses the poet's emotions |
| Stanza | Group of lines which are set off and form a division in a poem |
| Symbol | Something that means more than what it is, represents a larger abstract concept |
| Sonnet | Lyric poem with a traditional form of 14 iambic pentameter lines |
| Ode | Serious poem often addressed to a praised person or object |
| Ballad | Poem that was originally a song which told a story |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses |
| Rhyme | Repetition of sounds |
| Pun | Play on words |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds |
| Elegy | Poem of grief for someone's death |
| Allusion | Reference to something in history or literature |
| Oxymoron | The setting together of two words of opposite meaning |
| Figurative | Language using figures of speech that cannot be taken literally |
| Overstatement | Extreme exaggeration |
| Understatement | Saying less than what is meant |
| Refrain | The repetitions of whole words, phrases, lines or groups of lines, according to some fixed pattern |
| Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | Words whose sound suggests their meaning |
| Paradox | An apparent contradiction that is somehow true |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial sounds |
| Metaphor | Implied comparison between unlike things |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea |
