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| ballad | songlike narrative poem, usually featuring rhyme, rhythm, and refrain |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines |
| free verse | poetry with neither regular meter nor rhyme scheme |
| haiku | a 17-syllable, delicate, unrhymed verse, uaually about nature |
| limerick | a 5-line, rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually humorous |
| quatrain | a stanza containing four lines |
| alliteration | repetition of initial (first) sounds (picked a peck of pickled peppers) |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds (mad hatter) |
| consonance | repetition of final consonant sounds (east, west) |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sounds suggest its meaning (clatter, honk) |
| repetition | repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for emphasis |
| rhyme | recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of verse |
| rhythm | the recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses |
| meter | a fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm |
| simile | figure of speech that uses the words like or as to make comparisons |
| personification | figure of speech that applies human characteristics to non-human objects |
| hyperbole | intentionally exaggerated figure of speech |
