Elements of Poetry
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- Use of words resembling the sounds they mean
- Onomatopoeia
- A sequence of words
- Line
- Figurative language used to create mental images
- Imagery
- A contradiction of two words put together
- Oxymoron
- A repetition of consonant sounds
- Alliteration
- Feelings or meanings conveyed in a poem
- Tone, mood
- Poetry without regular patter of meter or rhyme
- Free verse
- Exaggeration for dramatic effect
- Hyperbole
- Repetition of same sounds
- Rhyme
- A comparison where one thing becomes another
- Metaphor
- A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
- Rhythm
- The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems
- Meter
- A phrase or verse repeated at intervals throughtout a song or poem
- Refrain
- Comparison using like or as
- Simile
- A division of a poem similar to a paragraph
- Stanza
- A reference to a historical or literary event or person
- Allusion
- The pattern of rhymed words
- Rhyme scheme
- Giving human behaviors to impersonal objects
- Personification
- Duplication of sounds at the end of lines of poetry
- End rhyme
- Comparison where things are explained in other terms
- Figure of speech