| A | B |
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| Imagery | words that "paint" a picture using the five senses |
| Alliteration | words closely situated that begin with the same sound |
| assonance | words closely situated that share the sound vowel sound |
| Simile | compares two things using "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | compares two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as" |
| Personification | Giving non-human things human qualities |
| Onomatopoea | words that immitate sound |
| Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry |
| Rhyme Scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
| Hyperbole | a great exaggeration |
| Allusion | referencing another story |
| Idiom | a group of words having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ) |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| Dramatic Monologue | poem whose speaker is NOT the author, but is a character the author has created; he/she is the only person who speaks |
| Theme | the message from the poem |
