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| ballad | a long story poem which may have some repeating lines and could be sung |
| hyperbole | obvious exaggeration, usually for dramatic humor |
| onomatopoeia | words which try to replicate sounds |
| lyric poem | short, descriptive, rhythmic poem which conveys speaker's emotions and observations about a place, person, thing, experience, or idea |
| simile | unusual comparison using "like" or "as" |
| haiku | three lined Japenese poem |
| epic poem | a long story poem about the adventures of a courageous hero on an extended quest or journey |
| imagery | vivid descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or things we can touch |
| sonnet | 14-lined peom usually ending whith some philosophical idea |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning sounds of words |
| historical fiction | a fiction story set in a real period in a nation's past |
| tall tale | an entertaining story with much exaggeration |
| free verse | poems without any rhythm or rhyme pattern often have irregular lines lengths and pauses |
| personification | figurative language which gives human characteristics to nonhuman things |
| ressonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words |
| memoir | a scene or description of experience written from memory (not a fully-developed story) |
| allegory | a story in which the character and events are actually all symbols for more complex issues or events in our past or present society |
| science fiction | imaginary story about a future with far-advanced science and technology |
| legend | a tale handed down as history by a tribe or cultural group |
| myth | story created by the ancient Greeks and Romans which explains natural phenomena using gods and goddesses |
