Elements of Poetry Exam Review

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What is the main difference between prose and poetry?

Back

Poetry looks different because it is written in lines and stanzas and prose is written in sentences and paragraphs.

Front

What is the first step in turning a story into a poem?

Back

Find the most important ideas in the story.

Front

Which words in the stanza rhyme? 'On the honor of my father, I promise I will not bother, the dog.'

Back

honor, father, bother

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What are free verse poems?

Back

poems that sound more like ordinary speech and do not rhyme

Front

Which of the following is a line from the poem?

The Fat Cat

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I had a cat

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He had a hat that did not fit

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Who was so fat he could

Back

I had a cat

Front

How many stanzas does this poem have?

Back

2

Front

Each stanza of a poem usually focuses on?

Back

A main idea

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How should poems be read? Options: pausing at the end of each line, pausing at the end of each stanza, pausing at the punctuation marks, however you want to read it.

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pausing at the punctuation marks

Front

Where should you pause when reading this poem? Options: At the end of each line, At the end of every two lines, At the end of each stanza because there are periods, Only at the very end of the poem because the text is a different color

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At the end of each stanza because there are periods

Front

The two boys stayed home because they had gotten mud all over ____ clothes.

Back

their