Poetry Elements

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What structure is poetry written in? Options: Sentences & paragraphs, Sentences & stanzas, Lines & paragraphs, Lines & stanzas

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Lines & stanzas

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What is the narrator of a poem called?

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Speaker

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True or False: All poems must rhyme.

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False

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Rhyme

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The repetition of an ending sound.

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Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.

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Musical

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Alliteration

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The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

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What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"? Options: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Hyperbole

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Simile

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What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another? Options: Hyperbole, Alliteration, Metaphor, Simile

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Metaphor

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What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing? Options: Hyperbole, Personification, Alliteration, Idiom

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Personification

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Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? Options: Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification, Hyperbole

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Hyperbole