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| images | pictures created using words |
| figures of speech | language that connects dissimilar things |
| stanza | a unit or collection of lines |
| rhythm | rise and fall of voices to stress some sounds more than others |
| rhyme | repeats the ending sounds in words |
| refrain | a line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals |
| narrative poems | poems used to tell a story |
| slang | informal language that includes invented words |
| mood | the feeling the reader gets from a poem |
| denotation | a word's literal meaning |
| connotation | feelings and ideas associated with a word |
| meter | regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| free verse | no regular meter or rhyme |
| end rhyme | occurs at the end of lines |
| internal rhyme | occurs within lines |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of lines (described by using letters of the alphabet) |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| onomatopoeia | use of words with sounds |
| irony | a contrast between what appears to be true and what is really true |
| allusion | reference to something that is widely known |
