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  1. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  2. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  3. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  4. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  5. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  6. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  7. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  8. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  9. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  10. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  11. poetry
    any communication rich in beauty or the evocation of feeling
Created on 十月 25, 2013 (updated 十月 27, 2013)

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