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Poetry
Term | Definition |
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Simile | Compares two things using like or as |
Alliteration | Words start with the same sound/ letter and is repeated in a phrase or sentence |
Personification | Gives human qualities to non-human things |
Metaphor | Compares two things without using like or as |
Imagery | Use descriptive language to appeal to all senses (hear, see, smell, touch, taste) |
onomatopoeia | Represents a type of sound |
Rhyme | Words that have the same sound |
Stanza | A group of lines in a poem (paragraph) |
Hyperbole | Exaggeration |
Idiom | A word or phrase that means something different from its literal meaning |
Line | A single row of words in a poem |