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| Imagery | Language that poets use to appeal to the senses |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to an object, animal, or idea. |
| Simile | A direct comparison of two unlike things using a word of comparison such as like or as. |
| metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using any words of comparison. |
| Implied metaphor | An implied comparison of two unlike things, where one is not stated. |
| symbol | An object, person, place, or action that represents something beyond its literal meaning, such as a quality, concept, or value. |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
| Alliteration | the repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words near each other or in succession. |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in words near each other |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds in words near each other |
| Rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sounds as well as the following consonant sounds |
| End Rhyme | Words that rhyme at the end of lines in poetry. |
| Internal Rhyme | Words that rhyme with one being within a line and another being at the end of the same line, or within another line. |
| onomatopoeia | Naming the sound of a thing or action. |
| Speaker | The voice in a poem; may be the poet or a character created in the poem. |
| Stanza | A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. |
| Theme | The main idea, basic meaning, or message in a text. |
| Cliche | An over-used expression |
| Poetry | literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by using style and rhythm. |
| Poem | A type of text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery, and connotative and concrete words. |
