poetry terms
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| metaphor | implied comparison of two unlike things
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| simile | "As water reflects a man's face, so the heart reflects the man."
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| adjective | a word which describes a noun or pronoun
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| assonance | bad/applie...can/amber
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| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds
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| rhyming couplet | AABB
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| rhyme | recurring end sounds at the ends of lines
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| internal rhyme | one or more rhyming words within a line
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| literal language | language that is real, original, and exact
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| enjambment | where lines of poetry are not stopped at theend, but run over into the next line
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| poem | a composition in verse
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| poet | expresses oneself with beauty of thought and language
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| point of view | answers the question "who?"
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| imagery | words used to create a picture or image in the mind
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| theme | a statement about life or human nature
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| meter | the pattern of accented/unaccented syllables
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| sonnet | a 14 line poem, often with love as the subject
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| tone | the way something is said
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| rhetorical question | a question only asked to emphasize a point
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| figurative language | the use of language beyond its literal meaning
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| personification | giving living qualities to a non-living thing
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| onomatopaeia | barnyard noises
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| sibilance | the recurrence of sounds known as sibilants which hiss (s, sh, c, z, ch)
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