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Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Poetry | Paint pictures with words. A special way of capturing experiences or feeling in deep meaningful ways |
| Meter | Pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| Rhythm | The pattern or 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 consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exageration |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of sounds imitate the sound |
| Simile | Use like or as to compare |
| Metaphor | Comparison without like or as |
| Rhyme | Words that have the same sound |
| Allusion | Referring to something else |