13060618489 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 0 | |
13060618490 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 1 | |
13060618491 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 2 | |
13060618492 | Line | A row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence | 3 | |
13060618493 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 4 | |
13060618494 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 5 | |
13060618495 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 6 | |
13060618496 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 7 | |
13060618497 | Dramatic | A poem that presents the speech of one or more speakers in a dramatic situation | 8 | |
13060618498 | Lyric | expressing the writer's emotions | 9 | |
13060618499 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 10 | |
13060618500 | Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem | 11 | |
13060618501 | End rhyme | when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same | 12 | |
13060618502 | Internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 13 | |
13060618503 | Narrative | a poem that tells a story | 14 | |
13060618504 | Speaker | the voice of the poem | 15 |
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