poetry terms

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The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem (ex. aabba)

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Rhyme Scheme

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A group of lines in a poem.

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Stanza

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A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

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Onomotopoeia

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Hyperboles are phrases that

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exaggerate

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Identify the literary device: Our feet squished in the mud. Options: simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, none

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onomatopoeia

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Classify the statement: "It is going to rain tomorrow." Options: simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, none

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none

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Give an example of personification: I am so hungry I could eat a horse, The sun is like a light bulb, The Sun smiled at us, I want to be awesome

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The Sun smiled at us

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What is personification?

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Giving human characteristics to non-human things

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Identify the Simile: The tree danced in the wind., She is as tall as a tree!, That cat is the devil., My backpack weighs a thousand tons!

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She is as tall as a tree!

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"Time flies by!"
Options: idiom, simile, onomatopoeia, metaphor

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idiom