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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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