Basic Poetry Review

What is poetry?

• Where the sound and meaning of words are combined to express feelings, thoughts, and ideas.

• Words and paragraphs with a main idea for each.

• Choosing words to fit the needs of the author and his/her audience

What does a poet do?

• writes a fiction story

• writes non-fiction

• writes poems

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

Instead of a paragraph, in poetry we call the sections...

• stanzas

• chunks

• fragments

• breaks

True or False: Poems must follow grammatical rules.

• True

• False

What is repetition in a poem?

• word that sound the same

• words that begin with the same sound

• words or phrases that are repeated

Rhyming is when some words

• sound alike.

• sound exactly the same.

• are spelled the same way.

• have the same definition.

What does rhyme mean?

• having the same ending sound

• a pattern of the beats, like music

• words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings

All poems have to rhyme.

• True

• False

Rhyming sounds have to be spelled the same way.

• True

• False