| Term | Definition |
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| Meter | The patterned repitition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement for effect. |
| Paraphrase | restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words |
| End Rhyme | Same sounds occuring at the end of lines. |
| Allegory | a story or poem in which characters, settings, and even events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. |
| Allusion | a reference made to someone or something in history |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to objects or animals |
| Imagery | use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation |
| Onomatopoeia | words that are the sounds that they represent |
| Approximate Rhyme | Also called "half or slant rhyme",- A sound that sounds alike but is not a certain match of sound (rain/again) |
| Alliteration | repitition, use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| Metaphore | compares 2 things as if they were the same without the words "like" or "as" |
| Tone | how the writer feels about what he/she is writing |
| Internal Rhyme | rhyming that occurs within one line of poetry |
| Simile | comparison of 2 things, using the word like or as |
| Diction | the writer's choice of words; an important elemtnt in the writer's voice or style |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds |
| Assonance | repetition of a vowel |
| Oxymoron | Two words placed together that have opposite meanings |
| Pun | a humorous play on words |
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