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Figurative language that compares two unlike things and uses “like” or “as.”

The perfume smelled like a spring day.

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Figurative language that compares two unlike things directly without using a specific word of comparison.

The crowd was a storm.

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Figurative language that speaks of a nonhuman or inanimate thing as if it has human like qualities.

The frog cried.

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People, places, events, or things that have meaning themselves but also stand for something beyond themselves.

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The writer produces mood by creating images and using sounds that convey a particular feeling.

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The attitude a writer takes toward his/her subject, characters, and audience.

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The author’s message in a story. The author reveals something about life and people.

The stories that have a meaning beyond the people and events on their pages- meaning that we can use-are the ones that change our lives. This deeper meaning is called THEME.

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The way a writer uses language. Punctuation Allusion dialect

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The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables—it provides the poem’s beat.

Thĭs lŏvely flówěr féll tŏ séed

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A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Dăy áftěr dáy, dăy áftěr dáy

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The repetition of the sounds of stressed syllables and any unstressed syllables that follow.

sport sputtering court muttering

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A pattern of rhymes in linesABAB or AABB and so on

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The rhyming words occur at the end of the line.

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These rhymes occur within lines.

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These rhymes use sounds that are similar but not exactly the same.

Fellow hollowBat bit

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Repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together.

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The repetition of vowel sounds in words close together.

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The word imitates the sound it makes.

Crash bang boomSnap crackle pop

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Two rhyming lines are consecutive or together (one right after the other).

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A poem written for someone who has died.

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This does not have a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Free verse sounds like ordinary speech.

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Songlike poem that tells a story, often a sad story of betrayal, death, or loss. Ballads usually have a regular, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain, all of which make them easy to memorize.

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A long narrative poem about many deeds of a great hero. Epics are closely connected to a particular culture. The hero of an epic embodies the important values of the society he comes from. (Heroes from epics have-- so far-- been male.)

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A poem that tells a story – a series of related events.

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A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings of a speaker.

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A long lyric poem, usually praising some subject, and written in dignified language.

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A fourteen-line lyric poem that follows strict rules of structure, meter, and rhyme.

Iambic pentameter is the meter or rhyme pattern most often found in Shakespearean sonnets. [Iambic refers to an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Pentameter means there are five beats or meters per line.]