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5. 1 What is the term that refers to the way the rhythm of a line of poetry is measured?

6. 1 That would be meter. Home

7. 2 The way lines of a poem are grouped together is called __________.

8. 2 Stanza!!

9. 3 What word refers to deliberate exaggeration or overstatement?

10. 3 That of course is hyperbole.

11. 4 What figure of speech uses like or as to compare two unlike objects?

12. 4 Similes use like or as to compare two unlike objects!

13. 5 What do you call a word, phrase, or line that is repeated throughout a poem?

14. 5 That would be refrain.

15. 6 What do you call a poetic technique that gives human qualities to nonhuman things?

16. 6 That would be personification!

17. 7 What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or as?

18. 7 Well, that is called METAPHOR!

19. 8 _________ is the repetition of similar vowel sounds at the end of lines of poetry.

20. 8 That is called rhyme!

21. 9 What term refers to the repetition of consonant sounds within lines of poetry?

22. 9 Alliteration!