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| Figurative Language | Language based on some sort of compairson |
| Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| Personification | Nonhuman things or qualities are talked about as if they were human. |
| Sonnet | Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter. |
| End Rhyme | Words that rhyme at the end of a line. |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhymed lines in a poem. |
| Meter | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem. |
| Iambi Pentameter | A line of poetry made up of five iambs. |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit. |
| Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhymes that occur within lines. |
| Onomatopoeia | Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. |
| Symbol | Person, place, things, or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself. |
| Pun | Play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
| Refrain | Repeating words, phrases, lines or groups of lines in a poem. |
| Metaphor | Makes a comparison between two unlike things without a connecting words such as like, as, than, or resembles. |
| Rhythm | Musical quality in language produced by repetition. |
| Diction | Writer's or speaker's choice of words. |
| Tone | The attitude a writter takes toward the reader, a subject or a character. |
| Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles. |
