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Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Poetry | Paint pictures with words. Written in lines and stanza |
| Meter | Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. The rhythm or repeating patterns |
| Rhythm | The patterns or beats in the line of a poem |
| Free verse | Poems that do not rhyme and do not have a regular rhythem |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics or traits to non living things |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same or very similar constant sound is words that are close together in a poem |
| Hyporble | Extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words that imitate the sound it describes |
| Simile | Use like or as to compare |
| Metaphor | Comparison that uses 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 |