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| Simile | A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as. The comparison's purpose is to create a visual image. (He runs like the wind.) |
| Alliteration | The repeating of beginning sound for effect (The wild wind whispered.) |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words which imitate sound (buzz, swish) |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison. (Jasmine is a shining star in class.) |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing is given human (PERSON-like) characteristics (The branches waved frantically.) |
| Symbolism | The use of a concreted or real object to represent an idea (A bird (because it can fly) has been used to represent freedom.) |
| Sensory details | Specific details that are usually perceived through the senses. They help the reader see, feel, smell, taste, and/or hear what is being described. (Frost cracking beneath my footsteps) |
| Repetition | The repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. (Run hard, run fast, run strong) |
| Rhythm | Internal 'feel' of beat and meter perceived when poetry is read aloud |
| Imagery | Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses. (The porch light burned yellow, night and day, in any weather.) |
| Stanza | A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme. |
| Oxymoron | A seeming contradiction in two words put together (Jumbo shrimp) |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration for dramatic effect (waiting an eternity for love lost) |
| Rhyme | Repetition of same sounds (fly, die, why) |
| Rhyming Couplets | A pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing one clear thought |
| Assonance | Deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
