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| alliteration | repetition of initial consonants - "the shoemaker sits" |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds withing words, or at the end of words |
| onomatopoeia | sounds whose words imitate natural sounds like "buzz" |
| rhyme | repetition of same end sounds |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| slant rhyme | words that have similar sounds, but the rhyme is not exact |
| couplet | a pair of lines that rhyme |
| refrain | lines repeated at intervals |
| stanza | lines of poetry printed together as a unit |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the line of poetry |
| foot | group of syllables forming a metrical unit |
| narrative poem | a long poem that tells a story |
| lyric poem | a short poem about one emotion or one event |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme written in iambic pentameter |
| free verse | poetry without rhyme or meter |
| blank verse | an unrhymed poem in iambic pentameter |
| metaphor | an implied comparison between two dissimilar objects not using like or as |
| simile | a comparison that uses like or as |
| personification | to give human qualities to animals or inanimate objects |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration to create effect |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known literary work, historic event, or a person |
| symbol | a concrete object that represents an abstract idea |
| imagery | creating pictures in the mind of the reader |
