Poetry Elements

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What is internal rhyme?

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Two or more rhyming words found in the same line.

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What do we call words or phrases that are repeated in a poem to show importance?

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Repetition.

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What do you call a person who writes poems?

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Poet.

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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Pattern of rhyming words or sounds (uses letters to label lines that rhyme: ABAB, AABB).

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What is end rhyme?

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When words rhyme at the end of a line.

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem.

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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 metaphor?

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

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What is the mood of a poem?

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The feeling or atmosphere that a poem creates for the reader.

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What is a simile?

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