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| alliteration | the repeating of beginning consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| connotations | emotions and associations that a word or phrase brings out |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within a word |
| diction | manner of expressing ideas in words; style of speaking or writing |
| exaggeration | overstatement |
| hyperbole | form of exaggeration (for effect) |
| metaphor | comparison made between 2 different things to give added meaning to one of the things being compared |
| anomatopeia | the use of a word whose sound makes you think of its meaning |
| personification | figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities |
| repetition | repeat a word over and over again to build rhythm |
| rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in a line of poetry |
| meter | rhythm or pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry |
| free verse | poetry that does not require regular rhythm or rhyme scheme |
| scanning | look quickly with your eyes for a pattern |
| rhyme | repetition of sounds in words that appear close to each other in a poem |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of a line |
| near rhyme | very close rhyming |
| eye rhyme | looks like it should rhyme but doesn't |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyme |
| refrain | a word phrase line or group of lines that is repeated regularly in a poem or song |
| simile | a comparison made between 2 different things using like or as |
| stanza | group of lines forming a unit in a poem |
| symbol | anything that represents or stands for something else |
