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poetry terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| poetry | paint pictures with words; written in lines and stanzas |
| meter | pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables to poetry |
| rhythm | the pattern or beats in the lines of a poem |
| free verse | poems that do not have a regular rhythm |
| personification | giving human characteristics or traits to non-living things |
| alliteration | repetition of the same or very similar; constant;sounds in words that are close together in a poem |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate the sound it describes |
| simile | like or as to compare something |
| metaphor | comparison without using like or as |
| rhyme | words that have to have the same sound |
| stanza | a paragraph in a poem |