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poetry terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| poetry | paint pictures with words. Written lines and stanzas. |
| meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. The rhythm or repeating pattern. |
| rhythm | the pattern of 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 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 intimate sounds |
| metaphor | comparison using 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. |