Poetry Vocab Practice

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Poetry is an ancient form of writing made up of lines and stanzas.

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an ancient form of writing that is made up of lines and stanzas.

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A stanza is similar to a paragraph because it refers to...

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a group of lines.

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Quatrains are four-line rhyming sections in poems.

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True

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A couplet is a pair of rhyming lines in a row, usually the same length.

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A couplet is a pair of rhyming lines in a row, usually the same length.

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Line using a simile to express mood:

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"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

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A sonnet is a poem with 4 sections and a strict rhyme scheme. How many lines does it have?

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14

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A metaphor is a type of figurative language that directly compares two things.

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figurative language that directly compares two things.

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Poetic form is...

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the physical structure of the poem.

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Rhythm is the beat or flow of a poem made up of beat and repetition.

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the beat or flow of a poem made up of beat and repetition.

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Rhyme is...

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a repetition of similar sounding words, primarily at the end of lines in poems and songs.