Poetry Literary Terms
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- something that creates a picture in the reader's mind
- image
- repetition of consonant sounds
- alliteration
- a comparison of two things without using the words "like" or "as"
- metaphor
- a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"
- simile
- a paragraph in a poem
- stanza
- two lines at the end of a sonnet
- couplet
- a fourteen lined poem with a distinct rhyme scheme
- sonnet
- giving nonhuman things human characteristics
- personification
- lines repeated in a poem
- refrain
- when a word represents itself and something else
- symbol