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a literary genre consisting of an arrangement of meaningful and musical words. Most poems take the form of a series of lines separated into groups called stanzas. These can be rhyming or non-rhyming and often contain metaphor, alliteration, assonance and other figures of speech. A poem is usually fairly short and has the ability to say much in few words. Sometimes the rules of grammar may be stretched in poetry.
an important character who is in opposition to the hero or protagonist in a literary work, e.g....
a figure of speech used to compare two unlike things without using the words like or as, e.g. He...
the action of creating characters and presenting them to the reader.
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any style of writing and speaking that is story telling.