Types and Elements of Poetry

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The form of a poem is...

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the way the words, lines, and groups of lines are arranged

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The rhyme scheme is the...

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pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines

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In poetry, lines are grouped in...

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stanzas

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What describes a free verse poem?

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do not follow a fixed pattern

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A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thing is called...

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personification

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A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as" is called...

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simile

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The use of words that vividly describe a sound (the word mimics the sound) so that readers can clearly "hear" them is called...

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onomatopoeia

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Using words that have the same (or very similar) ending sound is called...

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rhyme

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The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables is called...

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rhythm

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Which of the following uses alliteration?

• It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.
• Dyslexics of the world untie!
• Help stamp out, eliminate, and abolish redundancy!
• Darn dogs dancing.

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Darn dogs dancing.