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| metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate sounds |
| oxymoron | a word or phrase in which two seemingly contradictory elements are used together |
| understatement | a figure of speech that says less than is intended;the opposite of hyperbole |
| sentimentality | an author's effort to create emotional responses in the reader that exceed what is appropriate in a specific situation |
| personification | A figure of speech that attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals |
| rhyme | repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables, most commonly in poetry at the end of lines |
| rhythm | in poetry, the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds |
| stanza | two or more consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem |
| free verse | poetry that lacks established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza; also called open form poetry |
| limerick | a humorous, five-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and meter |
| meter | The method of organizing a poem's rhythm into a specific formal pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and the number of syllables per line |
| tone | the author's attitude toward the characters, subject, or reader of a literary work; the mood |
| lyric poem | highly musical verse |
| mood | atomosphere |
| repetition | is the use, more than once, of any element of language- a sound,word, phrase, clause, or sentence |
| narrative poem | a story told in verse |
