The End and the Beginning

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Lyric poem

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Poem where the speaker expresses his/her personal ideas/feeling.

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Imagery

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Descriptive words and phrases that create sensory experiences.

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Tone

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Author's attitude toward a subject.

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Diction

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Writer's word choice.

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Parallelism

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Similar structure in phrases or sentences.

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Theme

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The central idea or message in a literary work.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Personification

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Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.