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Poetry Unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Poetry | artistic writing that creates word pictures |
| Prose | ordinary writing in sentences |
| Meter | a rhythmic pattern of word sound |
| Rhyme | words that sound the same |
| Free Verse | words at the end of poetry lines |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| Personification | something non-human doing something only humans can do |
| Alliteration | the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate the 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 between actors in a script |
| Drama | a play written to be preformed by actors |
| Act | a major section of a play, made of several scenes |
| Scene | a subdivision of a play |
| Script | the written text of a play |