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Hyperbole
obvious and intentional exaggeration
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Metaphor
something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else
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Simile
a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
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Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by orassociated with its referent
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Personification
the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions,especially as a rhetorical figure
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Prose
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse
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Rhythms
a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form
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Rhyme
verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines
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Rhyme Scheme
the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences
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Repetition
something made by or resulting from repeating
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Sonnet
a verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with rhymes arranged accordingto a fixed scheme, usually divided either into octave and sestet or, in the English form, into threequatrains and a couplet
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Narrative Poetry
a form of poetry which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well
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Meter
poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses.
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Limerick
a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, andthe third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet
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Lyric Poetry
a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry
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Form
the shape and structure of a poem
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Free Verse
verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
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Idiom
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements
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Imagery
figurative description or illustration
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Elegy
a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem
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Extended Metaphor
a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem
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Couplet
pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length
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Ballad
a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing
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Blank Verse
unrhymed verse
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Alliteration
stringing words together that all start with the same letter or sound
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Assonance
rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with differentconsonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words
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