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1 What is the term that refers to the way the rhythm of a line of poetry is measured?
1 That would be meter. Home
2 The way lines of a poem are grouped together is called __________.
2 Stanza!!
3 What word refers to deliberate exaggeration or overstatement?
3 That of course is hyperbole.
4 What figure of speech uses like or as to compare two unlike objects?
4 Similes use like or as to compare two unlike objects!
5 What do you call a word, phrase, or line that is repeated throughout a poem?
5 That would be refrain.
6 What do you call a poetic technique that gives human qualities to nonhuman things?
6 That would be personification!
7 What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or as?
7 Well, that is called METAPHOR!
8 _________ is the repetition of similar vowel sounds at the end of lines of poetry.
8 That is called rhyme!
9 What term refers to the repetition of consonant sounds within lines of poetry?
9 Alliteration!