poetry definition
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| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to a reader's senses
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| Stephen King | Mrs. Shea's favorite author
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| hyperbole | using exaggeration for effect
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| denotation | the literal definition of a word
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| metaphor | a comparison of 2 unlike things states as a fact
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| personification | giving human characteristics to something not human
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| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
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| connotation | extra images and associations that shade a word's meaning
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| onomatopoeia | words whose sounds echo their meanings
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| tone | the poet's attitude toward the subject
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| simile | a comparison of unlike things using like or as
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| poetry | a type of literature which words are chosen and arranged for effect
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| line | it might be a single word or sentence or part of a sentence
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| structure | the way a poem looks on a page
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| refrain | one or more lines repeated in each stanze of a poem
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| rhythm | the musical quality of a poem
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| stanza | a group of 2 or more lines that form a unit in a poem
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| meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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| repetition | a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line are repeated
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| rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the end of words
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| speaker | the voice of a poem that talks to the reader
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