simile - A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using the words like or as. It's used to make a description more emphatic or vivid, metaphor - A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied or compared to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable., oxymoron - A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. These are one type of juxtaposition (examples: jumbo shrimp; original copy; lead balloon, juxtaposition - When two concepts or objects are placed next to or near each other, thereby highlighting their innate differences and similarities, apostrophe - A speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object, such as Yorick's skull in Hamlet. It comes from the Greek word apostrephein which means "to turn away.", pun - A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings., personification - The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form., alliteration - The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. (Ex. sweet birds sang softly), assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse. For example, “His tender heir might bear his memory” (William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 1”), consonance - The recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (Example: There was a discreet shut of the cabinet as he stole the cookie.), end rhyme - When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.” This rhyme is also called tail rhyme or terminal rhyme, repetition - Repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas, internal rhyme - a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next., rhyme scheme - The ordered PATTERN of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse., idiom - A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light )., couplet - Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit., stanza - A group of lines forming the basic unit in a poem; a verse., form - The physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition,

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