Prose: writing or speaking in the normal or ordinary form.
Poetry: a pice of literature written in meter or verse.
Literal: the standard meaning of a word
Figurative: Departure from the standard meaning of a word to achieve some special meaning or effect.
Hyperbole: Great exaggeration used to emphasize strong feeling.
Simile:'a comparison using like or as.
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a person, object or idea is imaginable transformed.
Personification: Giving a non-living thing a human trait.
Rhythm: Pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds.
Alliteration: the repetition of constant sounds
Onomatopoeia: A word whose sound imitates a sound.
Imagery: the use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses.
Cacophony:a succession of harsh sounds.
Euphony: a succession of smooth sounds.
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds followed by unlike consonant sounds.
Rhyme: The repetition of word-ending sounds.
Consonance: the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the vowels.
Rhyme Scheme:'the pattern of rhymes.
Internal Rhyme:'rhyme that occurs within a line.
End Rhyme: rhyme that comes at the end of lines.
Repetition: to occur over and over again.
Verse: one line of poetry.
Stanza: A grouping of the lines in a poem.
Refrain: A word, phrase, line or groups of lines repeated regularly in a poem.

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