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| alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words |
| allusion | A reference to something which the reader is likely to be familiar, such as a person, place or event from history or literature |
| hyperbole | Exaggeration, the obvious stretching of the truth |
| figurative language | Includes metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia |
| free verse | Poetry without a regular rhyme scheme, meter or form |
| idiom | A common phrase that can't be understood by the literal or ordinary meaning |
| imagery | Language that appeals to the five senses-touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight |
| lyric poem | A short poem that directly expresses the poet's thoughts and emotions in a musical way |
| metaphor | A direct comparison between two unlike things, not using like or as |
| mood | The feeling created in the reader by a poem or story |
| narrative poem | A poem that tells a story |
| onomatopoeia | The use of words that sound like the noises they describe |
| personification | A type of figuarative language in which poets give an animal, object, or idea, human qualities |
| repetition | The repeated use of any element of language--a sound, word, phrase, or sentence |
| rhyme | The repetition of similar sounds |
| rhythm | The musical quality created by a pattern of beats or stressed or unstressed syllables |
| simile | A comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| stanza | A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines |
| symbol | Something that stands for something else |
| tone | The attitude the writer takes toward the audience |
| voice | The perspective or character that is taken on by the writer or poet |
| rhyme scheme | The repeated regular pattern of rhymes usually found at the ends of lines of poetry or within the lines (internal rhyme) |
| assonance | The repetition of the same vowel sounds in several words of a line of poetry or a sentence |
