Poetry

What is poetry?

• A story that is made up
• A literary text that expresses thoughts, feelings, and emotion.
• A drama that can be acted out.
• A way for an author to provide you with information.

What is a stanza?

• a place where the line ends
• a group of lines
• stressed and unstressed syllables
• words that rhyme

What is a line break?

• A group of lines
• Stressed and unstressed syllables
• The place where the line ends
• Words that rhyme

Which of the following words rhyme?

• beat, street
• car, dog
• floor, draw
• sick, neck

Why does an author write poetry?

• To persuade
• To inform
• To entertain
• To prevent

Which of the following is a simile?

• The cloud is a fluffy pillow.
• Love is a blooming flower.
• Your smile is bright like the sun.
• The rain is wet. 

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• The cloud is a fluffy pillow.
• Your smile is bright like the sun.
• The rain felt like small kisses on my face.
• The pan is as hot as the sun. 

What is repetition?

• A word or phrase that is repeated throughout a poem.
• Saying something once
• human characteristics are given to an animal, thing or an idea.
• comparing two things

What is personification?

• Repeating words or phrases throughout a poem
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, a thing, or an idea
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Comparing two things without using like or as