| Term | Definition |
|---|
| imagery | words or details that appeal to the 5 senses |
| figurative language | words or phrases that describe one thin in terms of another and is not meant to be taken literally |
| symbol | a word/object that represents a major idea |
| metaphor | direct comparison of two things |
| simile | a comparison of 2 things using like or as |
| personification | giving human characteristics to non-human things/objects |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for effect |
| alliteration | echo of the first sounds of more than one word in a line |
| onomatopoeia | spelling a word as it sounds |
| rhyme | the repetition of the stressed vowel and any letters that follow it in words close together in a poem |
| rhythm | musical quality in language produced by repetition |
| meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line |
| free verse | a poem that does not have a regular pattern of rhyme or meter (stressed words) |
| diction | word choice |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | what the word makes you think of or what you associate with the word (not the dictionary definition) |
| tone | the attitude expressed toward a subject |
| voice | the writer's tone and choice of words |
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