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metaphor: direct comparison of two unlike objects
Stanza: certain number of lines grouped in scheme of meter and sequence
Simile: indirect comparison of two unlike objects
Hyperbole: showing exaggeration for an emphasis of the effect
Assonance: resemblance of vowel sounds
Poem: a composition in verse characterized by imaginative treatment
Meter: a measured verbal rhythm in every verse
Apostrophe: a statement to someone/something who can impossibly respond
Poet : one who writes poems
Figurative: a speech that gives deeper meaning other than its literal one
Irony : suggesting the opposite meaning of what has been stated
Personification: giving human attributes to inanimate objects
Synecdoche: using a part to suggest a whole
Rhythm: the recurrence of stress beats and sounds
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a composition in verse characterized by imaginative treatment
one who writes poems
suggesting the opposite meaning of what has been stated
a measured verbal rhythm in every verse
the recurrence of stress beats and sounds
indirect comparison of two unlike objects
certain number of lines grouped in scheme of meter and sequence
direct comparison of two unlike objects
resemblance of vowel sounds
showing exaggeration for an emphasis of the effect
a statement to someone/something who can impossibly respond
a speech that gives deeper meaning other than its literal one