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Poetry Terms
Term | Definition |
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Poetry | Paint pictures with words. |
Meter | Pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables. |
Rhythm | The pattern or beats in the lines of a poem. |
Free Verse | Poems that don't rhyme and don't have a regular rhythm. |
Personification | Giving human characteristics or traits to non-living things. |
Alliteration | Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
Onomatopeia | Words that imitate the sounds they describe. |
Prose | Ordinary writing |
Simile | Use like or as to compare |
Metaphor | Comparison without using like or as. |
Rhyme | Words that have the same sound |