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Poetry Quiz

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repeated sounds at the ends of lines   rhymes  
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regular rhythm   meter  
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poems may be written in ____________ and _____________   rhymes meter  
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add a musical quality to poetry   sound devices  
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the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables   rhythm  
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using elements of language more than once   repetition  
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using words that imitate sounds   onomatopoeia  
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repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words   alliteration  
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writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally   figurative language  
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describes one thing as if it were something else   metaphor  
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use like or as to compare two unlike things   simile  
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pool, rule, fool   rhyme  
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the cat sat on the mat   rhythm  
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crash, bang, splat   onomatopoeia  
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lovely lonely nights   alliteration  
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the snow was a white blanket over the town   metaphor  
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she is as slow as a turtle   simile  
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gving human qualities to something that is nonhuman   personification  
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writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses   sensory language  
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a group of lines that form one of the sections of a poem   stanza  
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something that stands for or suggests something else   symbol  
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an exaggeration or an overstatement   hyperbole  
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when a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is   understatement  
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an expressions that means something other than the literal meaning of its words   idiom  
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the attitude it expresses toward the subject   tone  
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the ocean crashed angrily during the storm   personification  
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poets use word images to help the reader experience a poem   sensory language  
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I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow   hyperbole  
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it's a little cool today   understatement  
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it's raining cats and dogs   idiom  
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poetry that tells a story in verse   narrative  
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plot and characters   narrative poetry  
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poetry expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single person   lyric  
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poetry in highly musical verse   lyric  
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shaped to look like their subjects   concrete poems  
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threeline Japanese poem   haiku  
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5-7-5 syllable poem   haiku  
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humorous, rhyming, five-line poem   limerick  
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