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poetry terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Poetry | paint a picture with words Written in lines and stanzas |
| meter | patterns of stressed and unstressed symbols, the rhythm of repeating patterns. |
| rhythm | the patterns or beats in the lines of a poem. |
| free verse | poems that do not rhyme and do not have a regular rhythm. |
| personifacation | Giving human characteristics to non-living things. |
| alliteration | repetitive of the same or very similar constant sounds in words that are close together. |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration used to emphasis a point. |
| onomanatopepia | the use of words that imitate sound. |
| simile | use like or as to compare |
| metaphor | comparison w/o like or as. |
| rhyme | words that have the same sound. |
| allusion | referring to something else |
| end rhyme | words at the end of the sentence rhyme |
| stanza | A paragraph in a poem |