Question | Answer |
a group of lines in a poem that forms a unit | STANZA
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a repeated word, phrase, or line | REFRAIN
| the use of words that have the same ending sound | RHYME
| when rhyming words are within a poem | INTERNAL RHYME
| when the rhyming words are at the end of a line | END RHYME
| the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning | ONOMATOPOEIA
| the repetition of the same beginning sound in words close together | ALLITERATION
| having a definite beat or rhythm pattern | METER
| having NO definite beat or rhythm; “free” of a regular beat | FREE VERSE
| a comparison of two UNLIKE things using “like” or “as” | SIMILE
| a comparison of two UNLIKE things NOT using “like” or “as” | METAPHOR
| giving human qualities to non-human things | PERSONIFICATION
| an expression that cannot be made sense of its words literally | IDIOM
| carries a comparison of two unlike things through an entire poem | EXMETAPHOR
| Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonants | ASSONANCE
| speaking out loudly enough for an audience to hear clearly | PROJECTION
| speaking with emotion in order to captivate the audience | EXPRESSION
| pronouncing each syllable of each word clearly and distinctly | ENUNCIATION |