Poetry

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem separated by a blank line space.

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What are rhyming words?

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Two words that have the same ending sound.

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What is the rhyme pattern in the following lines: 'Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.'?

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AABA

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Who is the writer of a poem?

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The poet.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates a picture in the reader's mind.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.

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What is a poem?

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A piece of writing that expresses feelings, ideas, or tells a story in a specific form, often using rhythm and rhyme.

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem.