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Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| poetry | the most compact form of literature. a poem packs all kinds of ideas, feelings and sound, and language of poetry all work together to create a total effect |
| poet | the author of a poem |
| form | the way a poem looks-its arrangment on the page |
| lines | poetery is written in lines, which may or may not be complete sentences |
| stanza | a group of related lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in a story. sometimes lines are separated into groups called stanzas_ |
| sound | poems are meant to be read aloud. therefore, poets choose and arrange words to create the sounds they want the listener to hear |