| A | B |
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| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison between two basically unlike things |
| poetry | the genre that expresses one's thoughts in verse |
| personification | giving human qualities to an inanimate object |
| alliteration | the repetition on consonant sounds |
| rhythm | the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into patterns |
| rhyme | the repetition of syllable sounds |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a division in the poem |
| imagery | using words to appeal to the five senses |
| internal rhyme | rhyming words within the same line of poetry |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhyme, ex: aabb or abab |
| onomatopoeia | a word used to imitate a sound |
| refrain | recurring stanza, like the chorus of a song |
| repetition | any word or phrase being repeated |
| allusion | a reference to someone or something...usually famous or religious |
| symbol | something that has meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well |
| connotation | the emotional feelings associated with a word |
| denotation | dictionary definition of a word |
| compare | to find the similarities |
| contrast | to find the differences |
| speaker | the voice in the poem, like the narrator of a story |
| theme | the message, or underlying meaning |
