Features of Poetry

1. Rhyme is the number count of the syllables in the line of poetry.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.4

2. To interpret the theme is to analyze the words in the line of poetry.  

• True

• False

3. Rhythm scheme is the arrangement of syllables in the line of poetry.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.5

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4. To determine the meter is to count the number of syllables in the lines and look for its order.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.5

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5. Meter is a pattern of words that has the same sounds.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.10

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CCSS.RL.8.5

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6. “No man is an island,

Entire of itself,

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.” - John Donne

• connection of people

• relationship

• isolation

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CCSS.RL.8.3

7. “You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.” - Maya Angelou

• confidence

• courage

• resilience

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

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8. “Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.” - Langston Hughes

• significance of dreams

• downfall

• courage

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

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9. “Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.” - Christina Georgina Rossetti

• lost

• death

• love

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

10. “Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.” - William Ernest Henley

 

• fighting struggles

• resilience in suffering

• strength

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9