Poetry

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What is poetry?

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Poetry is a type of writing that expresses feelings, ideas, or tells a story in a creative way, often using rhythm and rhyme.

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What is a rhyme?

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A rhyme is a word that ends with the same or almost the same sound as another word.

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What is rhythm in poetry?

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Rhythm is a regular beat or sound pattern in music, poetry, or dance.

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What is imagery?

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Imagery is language that creates a mental picture in your mind by describing how something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes.

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What is a stanza?

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A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in a story.

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What is the theme of a poem?

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The theme is the main idea or message that the poem conveys.

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What does it mean to personify?

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To personify means to give human qualities or characteristics to non-human things.

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial sound in a series of words, like 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying one is the other, like 'Time is a thief.'

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What is a simile?

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A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as,' such as 'as brave as a lion.'