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| Alliteration | Repeating the consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words. Ex: My Puppy Makes Pizza |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration. Ex: This test is taking forever! |
| Simile | A comparison between two unlike things, usually using "like" or "as". Ex: His imagination was like a bird in flight. |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things, using the word "is" to suggest a similarity. Ex: The cat is a rag doll in my arms. |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to non-human things. Ex: The sun smiled down on the beach. |
| Onomatopoeia | A word whose sound is similar to the action it refers to. Ex: Buzz, Hiss |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem, separated by a space from the other lines, like a paragraph in regular prose. |
| Verse | Verse can refer to a line of a poem or poetry itself. Ex: The book was written in verse. |
| Free Verse | A type of poem that has no formal rhyming pattern or organization. |
| Cinquain | A five line poem that often includes just 11 words. |
| Couplet | A pair of rhymes, sometimes right by each other or sometimes skipping a line. |
| Narrative Poem | Is a longer poem that tells a story. |
| Haiku | A short poem that includes 17 syllables. |
