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| Poetry | A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination. |
| Narrative poetry | A poem that tells a story. |
| Free Verse | poetry that has no regular rhythm or rhyme. |
| Lyric Poem | A song like poem that expresses a speaker's feelings. |
| alliteration | The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
| hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration or overstatement that the writer uses for emphasis. |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the senses. |
| simile | A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| metaphor | An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing. |
| personification | A figure of speech in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. |
| onomatopoeia | The use of words with sounds that echo their sense. |
| refrain | A group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech |
| repetition | The repeating of a word or phrase to add rhythn or to focus on an idea. |
| internal rhyme | The rhyming of words within one line of poetry. |
| symbolism | A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well. |
