Poetry Review

What is a stanza?

• an Italian horse

• a poetry "paragraph" or group of lines

• a sentence in poetry

• the rhyme scheme

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What is poetry?

• writing that uses words, sound, and structure in a special way to express meaning

• rhyming words

• long, old fashioned stories about love

• factual stories about science

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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CCSS.RL.7.5

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What is free verse?

• when every line rhymes

• an intense rap battle

• the arrangement of lines with no rhyme scheme

• when every other line rhyme

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

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Why might a poet use a rhyme scheme?

• to make it easier to read

• it sounds cool and exciting

• to ruin your life

• to make it sound musical and create rhythm

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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What is a line in poetry?

• like a poetry sentence

• a compound complex sentence

• irrelevant

• a song

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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Why would a poet use repetition?

• emphasize a particular point

• to be annoying

• to sound like a bird crowing

• they like the word, so they use it a lot

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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CCSS.RL.8.10

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Which is a couplet?

• whopper whopper whopper whopper

• I love eggs, but they smell bad.

• I kneel and blow, the fire flickers and glows

• I eat cheese. I am a rat.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

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What is the purpose of an ode in poetry?

• to celebrate something

• to tell about someone dead

• to explain something complicated

• to express anger

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I am as cuddly as a cactus

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

MEOW MEOW MEOW

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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