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| alliteration | Repitition of the same sound; usually at the beginning of words. |
| Onamatopoeia | Formation of a word by imitating a sound. Example: splash, boom, buzz |
| Assonance | Repitition of a vowel sound usually in the middle of a word. Example: How now brow cow? |
| Meter | Any kind of poetic rhythm beats and accents in a line of poetry. |
| Verse | Single line of poetry. |
| Rhyme | Sound alike in the last part of a word. Example: duck, truck |
| Stanza | Groups of lines in poetry; usually four lines or more. |
| Personification | Giving human traits to non-human things. Example: An angry storm is coming. |
| Rhythm | Musical sound characterized by regularly occurring accented beats. *Meter creates rhythm. |
