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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.

Haiku:

- a 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.

- a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.

Imagery :

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

Interference:

- a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Meter:

- basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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.

- a widely held but false belief or idea.

Rhyme:

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

syllable:

- a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word.

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