Poetry Flashcard

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A group of lines in a poem?

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Stanza

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What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?

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Personification

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Free verse poetry does not have...

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rhyming pattern

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The voice that is talking to us in a poem is referred to as what?

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speaker

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An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true and is not meant to be taken literally

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hyperbole

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poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure

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free verse

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What are words that imitate sounds?

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onomatopoeia

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The message or moral of the story

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theme

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Which line from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” contains alliteration? Options: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

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The piano sang a mournful song.

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Personification