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Is a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and often musical language. Poets arrange words in a way that touch readers’ senses, emotions and minds | Poetry
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| | Is the way the poem looks and its arrangement on the page. Poets deliberately choose the form they wish their poems to take and may even space the words and letters in a poem to create a special arrangement | Poetic Form
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| | Each line expresses the thoughts of the writer/poet in words. The lines of a poem can extend to two or more lines | Lines
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| | Is the group of lines combined into groups(similar to a paragraph) | Stanza
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| | Is a rhymed pair of lines in a poem. | Couplet
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| | The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of two or more words | Rhyme
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| | Is a comparison of two things that have some quality in common, but are primarily different. Unlike simile, metaphor does not contain the word like or as | Metaphor
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| | Is a comparison of two things that have some qualities in common, but are primarily different. In simile the comparison is expressed by means of a word such as like or as | Simile
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| | Is the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | Personification
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| | Is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Writers use alliteration for emphasis and to give a musical quality | Alliteration
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| | A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated | Hyperbole
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| | Is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning. The words bang and hiss are examples | Onomatopoeia
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| | Repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words | Assonance
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| | Consists of words and phrases that appeal to a readers five senses | Imagery
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| | Expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of the words used | Idiom
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| | Is a contrast between what is expected and what actually happened | Irony |