Poetry Vocabulary

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What is poetry?

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Poetry is a type of writing that expresses feelings, ideas, or tells a story in a creative way, often using rhythm and rhyme.

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What is a rhyme?

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

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Imagery is the use of descriptive language that helps the reader imagine how something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes.

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What does it mean to be the speaker of a poem?

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The speaker is the voice that tells the poem, which may be a character or the poet themselves.

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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 a story.

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying one is the other, like 'Time is a thief'.

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What is a simile?

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

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What is a line in poetry?

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A line is a single row of words in a poem.

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What is a theme in poetry?

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The theme is the main idea or message that the poet wants to convey through the poem.

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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 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'.