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the narrative voice of the poem (not necessarily the poet)

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Speaker

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a structural part or section of a poem (sort of like a paragraph in a piece of prose)

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Stanza

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the speaker’s attitude toward the subject matter

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Tone

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an extended metaphor that applies multiple characteristics of an object to something else

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Conceit

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a brief reference to an event or person from history, literature, or popular culture, which is meant to activate background knowledge

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Allusion

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exaggeration for effect

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Hyperbole

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an exact match of sounds

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Perfect rhyme

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a close but not exact match of sounds—usually the final consonants are similar but not the same

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Near rhyme

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rhyme that falls at the end of two or more lines in a poem (not necessarily together)

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End rhyme

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a rhyming pair that falls within the same line of poetry (rather than at the end of lines)

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Internal rhyme

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two consecutive lines that rhyme

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Couplet

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repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Consonance

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repetition of vowel sounds

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Assonance

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spellings of paired words appear to rhyme, but the sounds don’t
ex: love and prove

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Sight rhyme

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the use of words that sound like what they mean

Ex: buzz, whoosh, boom

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Onomatopoeia

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a representation of rhyming patterns in letters

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Rhyme scheme

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a fourteen-line lyrical poem with the following rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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Elizabethan sonnet