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Poetry Terms
| Meter | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
| Poetry | Paint pictures with words. |
| Rhythm | The pattern of beats in the lines of a poem. |
| Free Verse | Poems that don't rhyme and no regular rhythms. |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics or traits to non-living things. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words; close together. |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration. |
| Onomatopia | Words that imitate the sound it descries. |
| Simile | Use like or as to compare. |
| Metaphor | Comparison without using like or as. |
| Stanza | A paragraph in a poem. |
| Endrhyme | Words at the end of a sentence that rhymes. |
| Allusion | Referring to something else. |