Poetry Third grade

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial sound in a series of words, like 'big bird' or 'happy hippo.'

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What is rhyme?

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Rhyme is when two or more words have the same ending sound, like 'cat' and 'hat.'

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What is a haiku?

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A haiku is a type of poetry with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5, often about nature.

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What is personification?

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Personification is a figure of speech where animals or objects are given human traits, like saying 'the wind whispered.'

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as,' such as 'time is a thief.'

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Imagery is descriptive language that creates vivid pictures in the reader's mind, appealing to the senses.

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What is a simile?

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A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things using 'like' or 'as,' such as 'as brave as a lion.'

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What is a stanza?

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A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem, often labeled with letters.

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What is free verse?

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Free verse is a type of poetry that does not follow a specific rhyme scheme or meter.