Poetry

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What is poetry?

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A kind of writing.

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What should you do first when you receive a poem?

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Number the lines and stanzas.

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Which sense is appealed to in the phrase: 'Her sweater was so soft, reminding me of a smooth bunny or a fluffy cotton ball'?

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Touch.

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What sense is appealed to in the phrase: 'The leaves danced as the wind shook the tree'?

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Sight.

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Who is a poet?

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The person who writes a poem.

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What is a stanza in poetry?

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A group of lines in a poem.

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What is a rhyme?

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When two or more words have the same ending sound.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

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

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What does it mean to personify something in poetry?

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To give human qualities to non-human things.