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- Imagery
- The ability to form mental ___ of things or events
- Stanza
- A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
- Symbol
- An arbitrary sign that has acquired a conventional significance
- Hyperbole
- Extravagant exaggeration
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally
- Rhyme
- Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
- Simile
- A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds
- Alliteration
- Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
- Assonance
- The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
- Personification
- A ___ who represents an abstract quality
- Onomatopoeia
- Using words that imitate the sound they denote
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