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A musical quality based on the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.

A word or phrase that creates an imaginative comparison.

The repetition of the sound of the stressed vowel and the rest of the word (thinking, linking).

compares two unlike things by using like or as.

compares two unlike things without using like or as.

a type of metaphor in which an object, animal, or idea is talked about as if if were human.

repeats some sounds but are not exactly echoes.

come at the end of lines.

occur within a line of poetry.

The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of poetry.

Poetry that does not follow a regular pattern of rhyme and meter.

The use of words that sound like what they mean

The repetition of consonant sounds.