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Vocab MIU 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Poetry | Paint pictures with words. Written in lines of stanzas |
| Meter | Pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in poetry. The rhythm or repeating patters. |
| Rhythm | The pattern or beats in the lines of a poem. |
| Free Verse | Poems that do not rhyme and do not have a regular rhythm. |
| Personification | giving human characteristics or traits to a non living thing. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exageration |
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sound it describes |
| Metaphor | comparison w/o like or as |
| Rhyme | Words that have the same sound |
| Allusion | Referring to something else |
| End Rhyme | words that rhyme at the end of a sentence |
| Stanza | A paragraph in a poem |
| Simile | use like or as to compare |