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| alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together (ex: The big black bird crowed the blues.) |
| hyperbole | figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) to help form pictures in the mind |
| irony | contrast between expectation and reality - between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or what appears to be true and what really is true (verbal, situation, and dramatic irony) |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things stating one thing is another thing (ex: Her velvet lips kissed the baby's head.) |
| onomatopoeia | words that are formed to imitate sound (ex: cuckoo, buzz, kapow, etc.) |
| oxymoron | figure of speech where apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (ex: "Parting is such sweet sorrow" from Romeo and Juliet) |
| personification | a type of metaphor where a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human |
| simile | comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" (ex: He smelled like a wet dog.) |
| free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| speaker | the voice that is talking to us in a poem |
| stanza | group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem |
| sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines and a formal rhyme scheme such as ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
| rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
| couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit |
