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A type of figurative language in which the poet writes about one thing as if it were another.
Metaphor
The style and tone of a poem's narrator, speaker, or persona.
Voice
A form of poetry without metre, pattern, or rhyme.
Free Verse
A stanza consisting of a pair of lines.
Couplet
The repetition of a consonant sound, especially at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable.
Alliteration
The organised rhythm of beats in poetry.
Metre
The collections of lines into which a poem is divided.
Stanzas
A phrase or line which recurs throughout a poem.
Refrain
The technique which describes a clause or phrase which runs on between lines or verses without a pause.
Enjambment
A long pause or break within a line, usually (but not always) created by punctuation such as a full stop, semi-colon, colon or, occasionally, an em (long) dash.
Caesura
Using as or like to compare
Simile
An everyday saying
Idiom
repeated sound of S and C
Sibilance
repeated sound of P and B
plosives
A sudden change in the mood or message of a poem
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