Poetry Practice

What are the words for how we structure poetry?

• Sentences & paragraphs

• Sentences & stanzas

• Lines & paragraphs

• Lines & stanzas

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Definition

Which word is NOT a word used to talk about poetry?

• line

• stanza

• rhyme scheme

• paragraph

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Definition

Free verse poems do NOT __________.

• use repetition.

• tell a story.

• use words.

• rhyme.

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Definition

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ sound.

• Musical

• Old-fashioned

• Important

• Difficult

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Definition

In poetry, what is "meter" ?

• Words that sound the same

• How many rhymes it has

• The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

• The length of a poem

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Definition

What is alliteration?

• The use of synonyms.

• Words that sound alike.

• An exaggeration.

• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

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Alliteration

Definition

When we compare two things using the words "like" or "as", it is called ______.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyberbole

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Simile

Simile vs Metaphor

Definition

What poetic device (tool) gives human qualities to non-human things?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Idiom

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Personification

Definition

What poetic device (tool) is used here:

Two women were watching two watches.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

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Alliteration

Application

What poetic device (tool) is used here:

"Once upon a midnight dreary,

while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Simile

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Rhyme Scheme

Application