Poetry 2022-2023

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What is the narrator of a poem called?

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Speaker

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Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.

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Sound

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What structure is poetry written in?

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Lines & stanzas

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What is 'alliteration'?

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The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

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What device is used here: 'Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...'

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Rhyme

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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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 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 imagery in poetry?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates mental images.

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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.