stanza, A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph., line, One row of words in a poem., rhyme, Words that have the same ending sound (cat/hat)., speaker, The voice that tells the poem. It is not always the author., theme, The message or lesson the poem teaches about life., tone, The author’s attitude or feeling about the topic., mood, The feeling the reader gets when reading the poem., simile, A comparison using the words like or as., metaphor, A comparison that says one thing is another thing., personification, Giving human qualities to animals or objects., hyperbole, Repeating the same beginning sound in words close together., alliteration, A word that sounds like the noise it describes (buzz, crash)., idiom, A phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning of the words

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