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Poetry terms

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Alliteration   Repetition of a similar consonant sound.  
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Connotation   The feelings and associations that a word suggests.  
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Description   The kind of writing that creates a clear image of something by using details or senses.  
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Free verse   Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.  
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Imagery   Language that appeals to the senses.  
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Metaphor   A comparison made without using the words like or as.  
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Extended metaphor   A metaphor that is developed or extended through several lines or the whole poem.  
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Onomatopoeia   The use of words who's sounds echo their senses.  
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Personification   A non-human given human-like qualities.  
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Poetry   A kind of rhythmic compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion/imagination.  
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Refrain   A group of words repeated at intervals a poem, song, or speech.  
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Rhyme   The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sonds following them in words close together.  
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Rythm   A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed sylables or by the repition of sounds or patterns.  
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Similie   A comparison using like or as.  
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Speaker   The voice in a poem  
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Stanza   A group of consecutive lines that form a single unit.  
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Symbol   Something that has it's own meaning.  
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Tone   The attitude in the poem.  
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