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POETRY

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Stanza a paragraph in poetry
Quatrain a stanza made up of 4 lines
Sestet a stanza made up of 6 lines
Octet a stanza made up of 8 lines
Line or Verse one line in poetry
Rhyming couplet when two lines of poetry that directly follow each other rhyme
Slant Rhyme (forced Rhyme) words that appear as if they should rhyme, but they don’t quite
Meter arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses
Alliteration repetition of beginning sounds
Assonance repetition of internal vowel sounds
Simile a comparison between two objects using like or as
Metaphor a comparison between two objects not using like or as
Hyperbole an extreme exaggeration
Onomatopoeia real words that sound like what they are describing
Oxymoron A figure of speech in which seemingly unrelated or contradictory terms are combined
Personification applying human characteristics to inhuman things
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