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Poetry Words to Know
Academic Poetry terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which answer choice best explains rhyme scheme? | the pattern of rhyming words example... ABBA |
| WHOOOO is an example of... | onomatopoeias |
| Which answer choice best explains internal rhyme? | rhyming words in the same line |
| When an author, or poet, gives human qualities to inanimate objects he is showing... | personification |
| Which answer choice best explains the speaker of the poem? | who or what the poem is about |
| Why do poets use figurative language? | to produce images, or pictures in our head |
| A metaphor is... | a comparison of unlike objects |
| "I'm Dirty Dan, the world's dirtiest man" is an example of | internal rhyme |
| To convey means... | to show or tell |
| To emphasize means... | to show something is important |
| Theme is.. | the author's message or moral |
| When you infer you | use text evidence and background knowledge to state something the author doesn't tell you |