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The sun smiled at Earth.
Personification
Author’s attitude toward the subject
Tone
What is this? Zoom, zoom, zoom/crash, bang
Onomatopoeia
Using extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
“There were strange, rare odors abroad—a tangle of the sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfume of a field of white blossoms somewhere near.”
Imagery
The basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
Meter
A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.
Oxymoron
A poem with no prescribed pattern or structure
Free verse
A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth.
Paradox
The pen is mightier than the sword
Metonymy
The boy's stomach was a bottomless pit.
Metaphor
A division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit, often repeated in the same pattern of meter and rhyme throughout the poem; a unit of poetic lines (a “paragraph” within the poem).
Stanza
Harsh-sounding words
Cacophony
It was so cold outside, I thought I would die. (Could it really have been THAT cold?)
Hyperbole
The conscious measure of the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Scansion
Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name
Apostrophe
One line of a poem that contains 5 feet, ten syllables, starting with an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
Iambic pentameter
A figure of speech and a form of understatement in which a sentiment is expressed ironically by negating its contrary.
Litotes
A brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character.
Allusion
Indicating a person, object, etc. by letting only a certain part represent the whole
Synedoche