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| the voice that talks to the reader; may or may not be the writer/poet |
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| the writer's attitude toward the subject |
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| a comparison using connective words, such as like, as, resembles, than |
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| a direct comparison between two unlike things without connective word |
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| develops the comparison over several lines or even the whole poem |
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| descriptive language that appeals to the readers' senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste |
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| word or expression that is not meant to be taken literally |
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| poetry that expresses the poet's emotions |
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| type of metaphor; an object, animal, or idea that exhibits human qualities |
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| rhythm and rhyme without a regular pattern |
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| a regular pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables in a line |
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| a recurrent regular rhythm |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| repetition of a final stressed vowel & succeeding sounds in two or more words |
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| the most common type of rhyme; occurs at the end of the lines |
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| words with identical sounds |
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| approximate rhyme, or slant rhyme |
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| words that sound similar but do not rhyme exactly |
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| rhyme that occurs within the lines |
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| repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words |
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| the repetition of similar consonant sounds within words or at the ends of words |
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| use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| the pattern formed by end rhymes in a poem; indicated by giving each new end sound a new letter of the alphabet |
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| pair of rhyming lines (one next to the other) |
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| a song or a song-like poem that tells a story |
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| repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
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| feelings and meanings associated with a word or phrase |
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| indirect comparison, not stated |
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