Poetry Elements

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Alliteration

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a series of word that start with the same letter

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repetition

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when the words or phrases are repeated

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What is the stanza of a poem?

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lines grouped together like a paragraph

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What is the meter of a poem?

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a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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What is a line break in a poem?

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when the line of a text ends

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What is the rhythm of a poem?

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the beat of the poem

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Onomatopoeia

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when words are used to make sounds

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What is imagery in poetry?

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when words are used to make pictures in your mind (usually uses the five senses)

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rhyme

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when words have the same ending sound, usually at the end of the lines in a poem

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What is the author's point of view? Options: What the author is saying in the topic sentence, How the author thinks and feels about a topic, The general idea of the text, The moral of the story

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How the author thinks and feels about a topic