Language of Poetry and Haiku

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What is personification?

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Giving human-like characteristics to nonhuman things.

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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.

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What is alliteration?

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

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What is a haiku?

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A Japanese poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

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What is identical rhyme?

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Rhyming using the same words.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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A word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound it describes.

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What is a simile?

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

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What is a quatrain?

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A stanza or poem of four lines, often with alternating rhymes.

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What is a couplet?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

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What is a theme in poetry?

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The underlying message or main idea conveyed in a poem.