Elements of Poetry

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Which is an example of alliteration?

• There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of purple peppers.
• Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
• Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock.

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Peter Piper picked a peck of purple peppers.

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What is free verse?

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poetry that does not have any rhyme patterns or any stanza patterns

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Groups of lines separated by breaks are:

meters

,

patterns

,

stanzas

,

rhythms

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stanzas

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Pow, meow, arf, buzz, and cheep-cheep are examples of:

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onomatopoeia

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What is it called when a poet repeats the same word or group of words or sentence in a poem?

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repetition

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Rhyme

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that a word ends in the same sound as another word

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Figurative

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saying one thing, but meaning something else or something more

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The way that the sound of a poem rises and falls like beats in music is:

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rhythm

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What is it called when a poet repeats the same word or group of words or sentence in a poem?

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repetition

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When 2 things are compared using like or as

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simile

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