Poetry Month

What are the rules of free verse?

• They have a rhyme scheme but no rhythmic meter.
• They have no rules to follow. 
• They have no rhyme requirements but must follow a rhythmic scheme.
• They must be about heartbreak and hard times. 

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A ballad is a...

• a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• story/narrative in poetic form.

• a single line of poetry.

• the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.

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Theme is...

• A story/narrative in poetic form.

• the central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.

• The author's specific word choice.

• The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.

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"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!"

What is the rhyme scheme?

• AABBCC

• ABABAB

• ABCABC

• AABCBC

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What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author

• Speaker

• Narrator

• Main character

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What is "alliteration"?

• The use of synonyms to show emphasis

• Words that sound alike.

• An exaggeration of the situation to give a dramatic effect.

• The repetition of the beginning sounds of nearby words.

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Which detail from the following excerpt of the poem "Casey at the Bat" contains assonance?

Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell

It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;

It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,

For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

• "five thousand throats"

• "It rumbled through the valley"

• "It pounded on the mountain"

• "there rose a lusty yell"

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Read the following excerpt of "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles.

Which detail from the excerpt contains alliteration?

• “sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand”

• “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame”

• “conquering limbs astride”

• “Mother of Exiles.”

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Read this excerpt from “Barbara Allen”:

In Scarlet town, where I was born,

There was a fair maid dwellin’,

Made every youth cry Well-a-way!

Her name was Barbara Allen.

All in the merry month of May,

When green buds they were swellin’,

Young Jemmy Grove on his death-bed lay,

For love of Barbara Allen.

Based on this excerpt, what is one reason why “Barbara Allen” is considered a ballad?

• It is set to music.

• It takes place in England.

• It recounts a historic battle.

• It tells a story about a person.

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A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of _______.

• seven stanzas.

• two limericks in a row.

• four quatrains and a couplet.

• three quatrains and a couplet.

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