Glossary

 alliteration ||  the deliberate repetition of consonant sounds ||  assonance ||  deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds ||  apostrophe ||  an address to a person absent or dead or to an abstract entity ||  diction ||  poet's distinctive choices in vocabulary ||  echo ||  repetition of key word or idea for effect ||  hyperbole ||  exaggeration for dramatic effect ||  metaphor ||  a comparison not using as or like when one thing is said to be another  ||  onomatopoeia ||  "sound echoing sense"; use of words resembling the sounds they mean || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> oxymoron || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> a seeming contradiction in two words put together || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> paradox || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> seeming contradiction that surprises by its pithiness || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> personification || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> attribution of human motives or behaviours to impersonal agencies || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> rhyming couplet || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> a pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing one clear thought  || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> rhyme || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> repetition of same sounds || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> rhythm || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> internal 'feel' of beat and metre perceived when poetry is read aloud || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> simile || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> a comparison using "as" or "like" || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> Tone/Mood || <span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> Feeling or meaning conveyed in the poem ||