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A comparison between two different things using "like" or "as."
Simile
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An inanimate object or concept is given human characteristics or feelings.
Personification
100
Language appealing to any sense or a combination of senses.
Imagery
100
A two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes at the end.
Couplet
100
Something that is contrary to what is expected or the opposite of what is said.
Irony
200
A phrase, line, or lines repeated at intervals during a poem, especially at the close of stanzas.
Refrain
200
When the end of a sentence or clause coincides with the end of a line, creating a logical pause at its close.
End-stopped
200
Generally brief poems that imaginatively create a single expression; usually one dealing with an emotion.
Lyric poetry
200
Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.
Free verse
200
Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
300
The repetition of identical or similar words.
Assonance
300
A passing reference to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or to another literary work.
Allusion
300
Normally a 14 line iambic pentameter poem.
Sonnet
300
Poetry that tells a story
Narrative poem
300
A situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be turn or at least to make sense.
Paradox
400
The use of exaggeration for effect.
Hyperbole
400
An object, place, or person is used to represent something with which it is closely associated.
Metonymy
400
The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.
Meter
400
The number of lines in a unit of poetry.
Stanza
400
The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants.
Consonance
500
A direct address to an absent person or abstract entity.
Apostrophe
500
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
Rhyme
500
A form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression.
Oxymoron
500
Precise word choice
Diction
500
An implied comparison between things essentially unlike.
Metaphor
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