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| rhythm | feeling of a beat, like in music, that you hear when you read a poem out loud |
| rhyme | words that have the same vowel and final consonants (candy and handy) |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern or a rhyme in a poem |
| stanza | one or more lines in a poem set off by a space |
| verse | a single line of of a poem |
| figurative language | language that doesn't mean exactly what it says |
| simile | comparing two unlike things using like or as (as red as a rose) |
| metaphor | comparing 2 unlike things by describing one in terms of the other (the stars were diamonds in the night sky) |
| hyperbole | making something sound like it is larger or more important than it actually is (all the chocolate in the world wouldn't be enough for her) |
| onomatopoeia | a fancy of saying words that sound like their meaning (hiss, clatter, bang, quack) |
| alliteration | using words with the same beginning consonant sound (stop standing on the stubby stool) |
| personification | giving human qualities to to an animal or object (the moon looked down on a quiet countryside) |
