| Term | Definition |
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| lyric poetry | expresses vivid thoughts and feelings but no plot |
| narrative poetry | tells a story with a genuine plot |
| dramatic poetry | more like a play which uses techniques of drama such as speaker and conflict to tell a story. |
| speaker | the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem; may be a person, animal, thing or abstraction. |
| musical poetry | uses elements of sound to produce the desired effect. |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate actual sounds. |
| alliteration | repetition of the first sound of several words. |
| consonance | repetition of similar consonant sounds within words and especially at the ends of accented syllables |
| assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds |
| meter | formal organization of rhythms; a pattern of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables |
| repetition | repeated words or phrases |
| rhyme | words that end the same sounds. |
| simile | compares unlike things using the word like or as. |
| metaphor | makes a comparison by writing or speaking about one thing as if it were another |
| personification | describes an object, animal, or idea as if it had human characteristics. |
| apostrophe | the speaker or narrator directly addresses a person who is not present or a thing or an abstraction. |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhymes expressed with letters of the alphabet for each specific rhyme |
| stanza | sub-part of a poem - like a paragraph |
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