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Poetry Quiz Test

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

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