Poetry

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What is a simile?

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A simile compares two things using 'like' or 'as'. For example, 'as brave as a lion'.

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What is imagery?

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Imagery uses descriptive language to appeal to all senses: hear, see, smell, touch, and taste.

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is when words start with the same sound or letter and are repeated in a phrase or sentence. For example, 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'.

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Which of the following is an example of imagery?

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I came inside because the house smells like a chocolate brownie.

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What is personification?

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Personification gives human qualities to nonhuman things. For example, 'The wind whispered through the trees'.

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor compares two things directly without using 'like' or 'as'. For example, 'Time is a thief'.

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What is a rhyme?

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A rhyme is when two or more words have the same ending sound. For example, 'cat' and 'hat'.

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What is a stanza?

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A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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What is a theme in poetry?

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The theme is the main idea or message of the poem.

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What is a haiku?

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A haiku is a three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.