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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| topic | subject of a poem |
| theme | life lesson of the poem |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning sound words |
| onomatopoeia | sound word |
| imagery | descriptive words that create a picture in your mind |
| simile | comparing two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things saying one thing is the other |
| extended metaphor | compares two unlike things saying one thing is the other through several lines or the entire poem |
| personification | giving human like qualities to an animal, object, or idea |
| tone | the writers attitude |
| mood | the feeling being created in a reader |
| setting | time and place of a story |
| imagery | descriptive language that uses the five senses |
| hyperbole | an over-exaggeration |
| rhyme | when the vowels or constants in different words sound alike |
| alliteration | the repetition of sounds |
| stanza | paragraph |
| rhyme scheme | abab |
| narrative | tells a story |