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poetry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Poetry | artistic writing that creates word pictures |
| Prose | ordinary writing in sentences |
| Meter | a rhythmic pattern of word sounds |
| Rhyme | words that sound the same |
| Free Verse | words at the end of poetry lines so not rhyme |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhyme in poetry |
| Personification | something non-human doing something only humans do |
| Alliteration | the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sound they discribe |
| Metaphor | a comparison without using like or as |
| Simile | a comparison using like or as |
| Stanza | a paragraph in a poem |
| End Rhyme | last word of each line ends with the same sound |
| Allusion | A brief reference to something or someone |
| Couplet | Two lines that rhyme |
| Haiku | A single subject poem in 3 lines that dose not rhyme |
| Dialouge | Lines spoken by actors in a script |
| Drama | A story written to be preformed by actors in a play |
| Act | a major section of a play, made of several scences |
| Scene | a subdivision of an act |
| Script | the written text of play |
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