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| rhythm | a flow of rising and falling sounds produced in verse by a regular repeating of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| repetition | repeating sounds or words in poetry |
| rhyme scheme | the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem |
| free verse | poetry whose rhythm is not regular or smooth and even |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds (buzz or hiss) |
| hyperbole | exaggeration used to emphasize a point--mile-high ice-cream cones |
| imagery | language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, smells, feels, or tastes |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things. It does not use like or as. He was a tiger. |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things. It uses like or as. Her eyes were like stars. |
| alliteration | The repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words--wild and wooly--a babbling brook. |
| personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects. A smiling moon. |
| idiom | a figure of speech that does not say what it means. It was raining cats and dogs. |
| figurative language | words an author uses to help the reader see what is happening in a story or poem. The skies sparkled like diamonds. |
| rhyme | a close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of a poem. long/song. |
