| A | B |
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| alliteration | The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words. |
| onomatopoeia | Words that imitate sounds. |
| rhyme | The repetition of sounds at the end of words. |
| metaphor | A comparison of two things that have some quality in common. It does not use the words "like" or "as". |
| simile | A comparison of two things that have something in common. The words "like" or "as" are used in the comparison. |
| hyperbole | An author's use of exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis. |
| personification | Giving human qualities to animals, objects, things, or ideas. |
| rhyme scheme | The pattern of rhyme found at the end of the lines of a poem. |
| stanza | A group of lines within a poem. It is like a paragraph. |
| haiku | A traditional form of Japanese poetry. |
| idiom | An expression that has meaning different from the meaning of its individual words. |
| narrative poetry | Poetry that tells a story. |
| poetry | A type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and musical language. |
| free verse | Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm. |
| personification | Bugs Bunny |
| onomatopoeia | With a THUD she dropped her books on the floor. |
| hyperbole | There were three thousand people at the skating rink yesterday! |
