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Poetry Terms
| Questions |
Answers |
| comparing of two unlike things by saying (or implying it) |
metaphor |
| comparing two unlike thins using like or as |
simile |
| exaggeration that cannot possibly be true and is not meant to be taken seriously |
hyperbole |
| giving human like qualities to non-human like things |
personification |
| the repitition of the iniatial consonant sounds in a world series |
alliteration |
| words whose sounds imitate their meaning |
onomatopoeia |
| the repitition of the same vowel sounds among words |
assonance |
