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A poetic paragraph
Stanza
What is when a simple or ordinary object, event, animal, or person represents deeper meaning or significance.
Symbol
Her fingers were dancing on the keyboard
Personification
Alliteration with "B" "P" "T" (spitting) sounds
Plosives
Alliteration with "S", "Sh" "Ch" sounds
Sibilance
A first-person perspective poem where the speaker talks about themselves
Dramatic Monologue
Repeated words like a chorus in a poem
Refrain
A dominant or recurring idea/theme
Motif
Two ideas placed together for contrasting effect
juxtaposition
Two opposite words next to each other "he was falsely true"
oxymoron
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things
Personification
The turning point in a poem
Volta
A direct comparison between two similar things using "like" or "as"
Simile
A comparison between two unlike things
metaphor
Exaggeration for effect
Hyperbole
A short but definite pause used for effect in a line of poetry
Caesura
