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| another word for verses | stanzas
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| to desrcibe one thing as if it was something else | metaphor
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| gives human qualities to something nonhuman | personification
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| to compare to unlike things using "like" or "as" | simlie
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| anything that represents something else | symbol
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| the repition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words | alliteration
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| the use of any element of language more than once | repetition
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| the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables | assonance
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| the repetition of similiar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables | consonance
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| the use of words that imitate sounds | onomatopoeia
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| the repetition of sounds at the ends of words | rhyme
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| the rhymical pattern in a poem | meter
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| tells a story in a verse | narrative
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| a three-line Japanese verse form | Haiku
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| defined by its lack of strict structure, has a regular meter, rhyme, fixed line lenght, or specific stanza pattern | free verse
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| expresses thoughts and feeling of a single speaker | lyric
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| songlike poems that tell a story | ballads
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| shaped to look like their subjects | concrete
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| humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specifc rhytm pattern and rhyme scheme | limericks
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| pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length | rhyming couplets
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| writing or speech not meant to be taken literally | figurative language
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| enhance a poem's mood and meaning | sound devices
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| the people or animals who take in a story's action | characters
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| the way a writer reveals a character's personality and qualities | characterization
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| the writer describes the characters through adjectives | direct characterization
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| the writer reveals the character through speed and actions | indirect characterizations
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| the central message expressed in a story | theme
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| a recurring theme | universal theme
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| the sequence of events in a short story | plot
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| introduces the setting, time, and place | exposition
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| introduces the conflict or problem | rising action
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| the turning point of the story | climax
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| part of the story when the conflict lessons | falling action
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| story's conclusion | resolution
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| the use of clues early in a story to hint for future events | foreshadowing
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| placement of a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to reveal past occurences | flashback
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| general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising and unexpected events that happen | irony
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| form of language spoken by people in a particular region or a group | dialect
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| the reason or reasons that explain why characters act as they do | motivation
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| In Bailando, who is the speaker talking to | their Aunt
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| What is the title of Desert is My Mother | a metaphor
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| What type of poem is Seal | concrete
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| What type of peom is the Rider | lyric poem
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| What type of figurative language does Bailando use | repetition
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| In Mother to Son, who is the speaker, who is she speaking to | mother, her son
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