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| Simile | a comparison of two things, using "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things, where no comparison word is used |
| Personification | giving human characteristics to an object, animal, or idea |
| Narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| Voice | the one who is speaking in the poem |
| Tone | the attitude a writer expresses towards a subject, audience, or character |
| Idiom | an expression that must be learned as a whole; it cannot be interpreted literally |
| Mood | atmosphere or feeling in a work of literature |
| Free verse | poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Imply | to give the idea of |
| Blank verse | poetry that has meter but never rhymes |
| Meter | distinct rhythm you can tap your feet to |
| Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds |
| Imagery | languages that appeals to the senses |
| Figurative language | language that describes one thing in terms of something else; it is not literally true |
| Speaker | the one who is speaking or whose "voice" is used in the poem |
| Lyric poetry | poetry that is involved with the poet's personal feelings |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound of what it suggests |
| Symbol | something that stands for something else |
| Stanza | lines of poetry that form a unit; similar to a paragraph |
| Foreshadowing | the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot |
| Theme | the underlying meaning or message of a literary work |
| 3rd person omniscient | the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems |
| 3rd person limited | the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character |
| first person | one of the characters, using the personal pronoun "I" is telling the story |
| Prose | ordinary language of writing/speaking |
| Irony | a contrast between expectation and reality |
