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 * simile || a comparison using "as" or "like" ||
 * assonance ||     deliberate repetition on of identical or similar vowel sounds.       ||
 * alliteration || the deliberate repetition of consonant 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" ||
 * oxymoron || a seeming contradiction in two words put together ||
 * paradox || seeming contradiction that surprises by its pithiness ||
 * personification || attribution of human motives or behaviours to impersonal agencies ||
 * rhyming couplet || a pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing one clear thought ||
 * rhyme || repetition of same sounds ||
 * rhythm || internal 'feel' of beat and metre perceived when poetry is read aloud ||
 * tone, mood || feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem ||