YAWP! Dead Poets Society Poetry Terms

Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• The repetition of a letter.
• The repetition of an ending sound.

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What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

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In poetry, what is "meter" ?

• Words that sound the same
• Sophisticated vocabulary
• The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
• The length of a poem

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A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• stanza

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A comparison of two things without using "like" or "as".

• personification
• poem
• metaphor
• simile

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You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch

You really are a heel

You're as cuddly as a cactus

You're as charming as an eel

-"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"

• Simile and personification

• Metaphor and symbolism

• Hyperbole and imagery

• Simile and Metaphor

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I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

• Symbol

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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When a poet is talking directly to a thing or person that isn't actually present. 

• haiku 
• apostrophe

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Which of the following is not an oxymoron?

• bittersweet
• civil war
• still moving
• pretty ugly

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Placing side by side two contradictory words that make logical sense when explained.

• paradox
• hyperbole
• personification 
• oxymoron 

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