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| Free Verse | Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Rhyme | Words that sound alike at the end |
| Narrative Poem | Poetry that tells a story |
| Repetition | The recurring use of a sound, a word, a phrase, or a line |
| Theme | The main idea of a poem; what the author wants to say to you |
| Alliteration | The repetition of beginning sounds Ex. "Silly Sammy slipped." |
| Simile | To describe by comparing two things using "like" or "as" Ex She was as fast as a fox. |
| Metaphor | To describe by comparing two things. Ex. A young person is a work of art. |
| Personification | To give human qualities to animals or nonhuman objects |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Ex "Beep, beep," "Swoosh," "ding, ding" |
