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Poetry Terms 1
Question | Answer |
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A poem that has no meaning or doesnt make since. | A Nonsense Poem |
A poem thats in the shape of what it's describing. | A Concrete poem |
A story told in verse. Narrative poems often have all the elements of short stories, including characters, setting, conflict and plot. | Narrative Poem |
A poem that ends a different way from what it might seem. | Irony |
Poetry without regular rhyme, meter, or stanza formation | Free Verse |
A group of lines forming one of the divisions of a poem, like a paragraph | Stanza |
Two successive lines of poetry, especially two of the same length that rhyme | Couplet |
A nonsense poem of five lines, usually with the rhyme scheme aabba | Limerick |
A comparison between two elements that does not use “like” or “as" | Metaphor |
A poetic expression in which two elements are compared by using either “like” or “as” | Simile |
Rhyme is the repetition of a sound in two or more words or phrases. | Rhyme |
The common type of rhyme that occurs at the end of lines is called | End Rhyme |
However, rhyme can occur within a line as well. Some rhymes are ------, like peas and cheese. The sounds of these words are exactly alike, except for the consonants at the beginning. | Exact Rhyme |
words whose sounds are similar, but not identical, like pans and hams. | Half Rhymes |
or pattern of rhymes, to focus your attention on a particular passage. | Rhyme Scheme |
Repitition of an initial sound, usually of a consonant or cluster, in two or more words of a phrase, line of poetry | Alliteration |