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Poetry Test
Thursday - ELA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lines | Most poems are written in lines. |
| Stanzas | Separate ideas in a poem. They act like paragraphs. |
| What are two types of structure in poetry? | Lines and stanzas. |
| Define Rhyme Scheme? | Pattern of rhyme in a stanza or poem. |
| What are the four types of rhymes? | Exact Rhyme, Slant Rhyme, Internal Rhyme, and End Rhyme. |
| What's Exact Rhyme? | Words that rhyme exactly ( see and tree ). |
| What's Slant Rhyme? | Words that sound very similar but do not rhyme exactly. |
| What's Internal Rhyme? | Two words rhyme within one line of poetry. |
| What's End Rhyme? | Most common rhyme The last SYLLABLE (word) of one line rhymes with the last syllable of another line. |
| What's Allusion? | A reference to another piece of literature or history. |
| What's Hyperbole? | An exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. |
| What's Simile? | A comparison between two usually unrelated things using the word “like” or “as”. |
| What's Metaphor? | An implied comparison between two usually unrelated things. |
| What's Personification? | Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals. |
| What's Symbolism? | Something that stands for or suggests something else; it represents something beyond literal meaning. |
| What's Imagery? | The use of words to create picture/images in your mind. Appeals to the five senses. |
| What's Mood? | Mood is the feeling a reader gets while reading. |
| What's tone? | Tone reflects how the narrator or author feels about his topic. |
| What's Onomatopoeia? | Words that spell out sounds. |
| What's Alliteration? | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
| What's Assonance? | The repetition of the same vowel sounds within a line. |
| What's Consonance? | The repetition of the same consonant sounds within a text. |
| What's Rhythm? | The flow or beat of a poem that gives it a musical feel. |
| What's Repetition? | Intentionally using a word or phrase two times or more in a text. |
| What's a lyric poem? | Focused on a single subject, thoughts and feelings of one person. |
| What's a Haiku poem? | A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. |
| What's a Concrete poem? | Writing that focuses on the shape words make on the page. |
| What's a Free Form poem? | No rules, gives the poet creative control. |