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Poetry Words
Words used to describe basic elements of poetry
Question | Answer |
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poem | writing that is imaginative and condensed by using words chosen for their sounding and meaning with phrases that may have a certain pattern made with rhythm and rhyme |
limerick | a humorous poem that is 5 lines long usually the 1st, 2nd and last lines have the same rhyme the 3rd and 4th lines rhyme with each other |
rhyme | words at the end of a line of a poem that sound alike |
rhythm | a pattern created with long and short and weak and strong sounds |
meter | a rhythmic pattern in a poem |
verse | a line of a poem or a group of lines within a long poem |
couplet | two lines of a poem together with the same rhyme and rhythm at the end |
stanza | a part of a poem with similar rhythm and rhyme that will repeat later in the poem |
sonnet | a 14 line poem that you being with 8 lines and is followed with 6 lines |
poet | a writer of poems - you |