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2. "smell" imagery, eg. “the pungent smell of smoke”
5. Used to describe something in a way that is not literal/true. Eg. Her life was a circus. The car was a beast.
7. A type of consonant alliteration, specifically the repetition of the "s" sound.
10. A metaphorical, non-literal phrase that has been exaggerated in order to create a dramatic and strong emotional response in the reader. Eg. I’m so hungry I could eat an entire grocery store. I’m dying of thirst too.
13. "hear" imagery, “the soft pitter-patter of rain”
14. scheme A pattern of rhyming in a poem, that can be represented by using letters. Eg. In A Southern Garden uses the rhyming scheme: ABAB in the first stanza (stanza = “paragraph” of the poem).
15. Why is imagery important? Imagery is a poetic device/convention that creates a sensory experience for the reader, to set a particular atmosphere using words, and to stimulate a particular emotional response in the reader.
17. Used to compare two unrelated to each other using “like” or “as”. Eg. The dog wore a party hat like a unicorn. He was shaped like a Coca-cola bottle. Her room was a safe space, like the eye of a cyclone. The chair creaked as if it had arthritis.
18. "tactile" imagery, “the soft velveteen slippers”

1. At least two to three repetitions of the same sound must be present within close proximity (eg. drooping down). Eg. the day was dire. eg. the dog was done dusting his paws). There are two types of alliteration; assonance and consonance.
3. The beat and pace of a poem.
4. Consonance is the repetition of at least two or more of the other sounds (all the sounds excluding vowels), that are in close proximity. Eg. Tinkerbell told the tale of her time as a tiny fairy).
6. Assonance is the repetition of at least two or more vowel sounds in close proximity (a, e, i, o, u), eg. in Iceland igloos rest on icebergs.
8. A “figure of speech” that is well known by most people. It has a metaphorical, non-literal meaning. Eg. the tap is running; over the moon; a piece of cake.
9. Giving an inanimate object, human qualities. For example, the clouds “roared” and the heavens “cried”. Another example can be found in the poem In A Southern Garden by Dorothea Mackellar, where the water is personified in stanza two, shown in the phrase “loud the water soughs and gurgles”.
10. A type of imperfect rhyme - two words that sound very similar but are not considered a perfect rhyme, eg. “sea” and “ivory” sound very similar, but they are not a perfect rhyme like “breeze” and “trees”
11. The sound, or description of a sound, in poetry.
12. "taste" imagery, “sweet like honey”
16. "see" imagery, eg. “her dress was a dusty-rose colour”