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Rows of words   Line  
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lines of poetry grouped together like a paragraph   Stanza  
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a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"   Simile  
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make things more dramatic than they really are, over the top description or comparison   exaggeration  
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a diliberate use of exaggeration   hyperbole  
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gives animals or objects human qualities- makes non-human things act like humans   personification  
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the person (author)of a poem   poet  
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the character that is talking in the poem   speaker  
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the repeated sounds, or beat in a poem   rhythm  
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two or more words that have the same ending sound   rhyme  
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the repetition of the initial (fist) consonant sound in a series of words   allliteration  
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the way a person speaks representing a particular group of people   dialect  
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in general, a comparison of two things   analogy  
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a vivid picture the poem paints in the readers mind   image  
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word that can have more than one meaning like raise and raise   multiple meaning words  
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the use of the same sound, word, or phrase, or line over and over on purpose   repitition  
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words that appeal to any of the five senses: sight, hearing, feeling, smell, taste   sensory language  
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something that represents something else   symbol  
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element of the appearance of words, lines, stanzas or even the whole poem that add to the poems meaning.   visual elements  
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