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Poetry/Drama
| Word | 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 the poetry lines do not rhyme |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| Personification | something non-human doing human things |
| Alliteration | the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds they describe |
| 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 do not rhyme |
| Dialogue | lines spoken by actors in a script |
| Drama | a story written to be performed by actors in a play |
| Act | a major section of a play, made up of several scenes |
| Scene | a subdivision of an act |
| Script | the written text of a play |
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