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similie
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A comparison of 2 unlike things that uses like or as
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metaphor
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a comparison of 2 unlike things that doesent use like of as
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personification
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giving human traits to animals or objects
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idiom
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a common phrase that can't be understood by their litteral or ordinary meanings
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hyperbole
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an exaggeration used for emphesis
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pun
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a humorous play on words
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symbol
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an object person action or situation that signifies more than it self
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allittation
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reppitition of sounds at the beginnng of conconate words
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assonance
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the reppitition of vowel sounds
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consonance
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repitittion of consiate sounds anywhere in the word
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onomatopia
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words that immitate the sound they name
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visual image
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what you see in your mind
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auditory image
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something you hear
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end rhyme
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rhyme occuring at the end of lines
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rhyme scheam
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the pattern of rhyme
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meter / rytheme
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the pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
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reppitition
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the repeating of a word or phrase in a poem
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form
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how the poem looks on a page
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line
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may or may not be sentences
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stanzas
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number of lines that devide a poem into sections
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couplet
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a 2 lined stanza
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free verce
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poems that follow no pattern
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haiku
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japanese poetry that has 3 and a 5,7,5 syllable pattern
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concrate poem, shape poem
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a poem that is written in the shape of the subject
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narritive
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a poem that tells a story. It has a setting and charicters
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ballad
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a narritive poem set tomusic
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limerick
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a funny 5 line poem, aabba rhyme pattern
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epic
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a long poem that that tells a hero's story
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sonnet
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a poem that has 14 lines and ends with a couplet
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elegy
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a very sad poem
