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The repetition of beginning or ending sounds close together.
What is consonance?
regular patterns of stresses and unstressed syllables that emphasize sound
What is rhythm?
the pattern of rhyming lines
What is rhyme scheme?
a comparison in which the author describes a human or object using words that are not meant to be taken literally
What is a metaphor?
a four line stanza
What is a quatrain?
The repetition of vowel sounds in words close together.
What is assonance?
the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is meter?
a rhyme within a line of verse
What is internal rhyme?
the use of language to create mental pictures and appeal to the senses
What is imagery?
a two line stanza
What is a couplet?
The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words or stressed syllables.
What is alliteration?
words that have similar but not identical sounds
What is slant rhyme?
a comparison of two things that are essentially different, using the words like or as
What is a simile?
nonhuman things are represented as having human qualities
What is personification?
a paragraph in a poem
What is a stanza?
The repeated meter or rhythm that emphasizes words, phrases, lines, or even whole verses of poems.
What is repetition?
two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line of poetry
What is close rhyme?
a metaphor in which the metaphor is carried through multiple lines or even the entire piece
What is extended metaphor?
the intentional break of a line of poetry
What is a line break?
The use of words that sound like what they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
two words or more that end with the same sound
What is rhyme?
an extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole?
groups of lines repeated at key intervals
What is a refrain?