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Acrostic :a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Annotate:add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment.

"documentation should be annotated with explanatory notes"

Haiku:Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

Paraphrase:express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.

Imagery:visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

"Tennyson uses imagery to create a lyrical emotion"

Inference:a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

"researchers are entrusted with drawing inferences from the data"

Meter:the SI base unit of length (equivalent to approximately 39.37 inches), first introduced as a unit of length in the metric system.

Myth:a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events."ancient Celtic myths"

Rhyme:correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

"poetic features such as rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration"

Syllable:a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.


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