poetry terms

The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem (ex. aabba)

• Internal Rhyme
• Repetition
• Rhyme Scheme
• Free Verse

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A group of lines in a poem.

• Stanza
• Line
• Sentence
• Paragraph

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A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Metaphor
• Sound
• Onomotopoeia
• Rhythm 

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Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things
• exaggerate
• give person-like qualities to animals and things
• have a different meaning than the words.

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Our feet squished in the mud.

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• none

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It is going to rain tomorrow.

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• none

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Give an example of personification

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse
• The sun is like a light bulb
• The Sun smiled at us
• I want to be awesome

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What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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Identify the Simile below...

• The tree danced in the wind.
• She is as tall as a tree!
• That cat is the devil.
• My backpack weighs a thousand tons!

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Time flies by! 

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

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