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Poetry terms
| poetry | paint pictures with words |
|---|---|
| meter | pattern of stress and unstressed sylibols |
| rhyme | the pattern or beats in the line |
| free verse | poems that don't rhyme and no regular rhyme |
| personification | giving a human characteristics to a nonhuman |
| alliteration | repetition of the same or very similar continent sounds in words |
| hyberbole | extreme exageration |
| onomonopia | words that imitate the sound it describes |
| simile | words that compare something using the words like or as |
| metaphor | words that compare something without using the words like or as |
| stanza | paragraph in a poem |
| end rhyme | words at the end of a sentence that rhyme |
| allusion | referring to something else |