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| alliteration | vowel sounds are repeated |
| allusion | a reference to a familiar literary work, historical event or person |
| tone | the author's attitude |
| assonance | the repitition of similar vowel sounds in poetry |
| simile | "Her eyes twinkled like a million shining stars." |
| symbol | soemthing that suggests or stands for soemthing else |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry |
| connotation | the impression a word gives beyond its defined meaning |
| denotation | the literal meaning of a word |
| free verse | poetry that captures the cadences of everyday speech |
| personification | giving human qualities to inantimate objects |
| refrain | a repeated phrase in a poem |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse |
| metaphor | directly comparing two unlike things |
| mood | the emotion of a poem |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that sounds like their meaning |
| oxymoron | "O loving hate! O heavey lightness!" |
| hyperbole | great exaggeration |
| imagery | the array of images in a literary work |
| stanze | a group of lines in a poem |
