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| alliteration | the repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds |
| allusion | a reference to a person, place, statement or event, often from literature or history |
| connotation | the emotional meaning of a word, often based on personal experience |
| denotation | the exact definition of a word |
| hyperbole | dramatic exaggeration |
| imagery | words which arouse the five senses |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike objects not using "like" or "as" |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word that sounds like its definition |
| personification | giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| quatrain | a stanza of four lines |
| refrain | a line or lines repeated in a poem |
| rhyme | the repetition of end sounds in words close together |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike objects using "like" or "as" |
| stanza | a group of lines that forms a single unit in a poem |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes toward a subject, an audience, or a character |
