| Term | Definition |
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| alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words like, dance, dare, drop |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like the noise they name, buzz, thump, snap |
| end rhyme | the ryming of words at the ends of two or more lines of poetry |
| rhythm | the pattern of sounds and beats that helps poetry flow from one idea to the next |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes in a poem |
| repetition | the repeating of a word or phrase to add rhythm or emphasis. |
| stanza | one of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines |
| personification | a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possesing human form |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared often in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as" |
| metaphore | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarlily designates one thing is desingnated to another, thus making an implicit comparison |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
| haiku | a three-line poem about nature. the first line is five syllables, the second line has seven syllables and the third line has five syllables |
| tanka | a five-line poem in which the first and third lines have five syllables and the rest of the lines have seven syllables |
| quatrain | a stanza or poem with four lines |
| cinquain | a five-line stanza |
| acrostic | a poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence |
| free verse | verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| couplet | a unit of verse consisting of two succesive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit |
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