Poetry Terms 3rd Grade

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same beginning sound in a series of words, like 'phone', 'fame', and 'fin'.

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What do you call the writer of a poem?

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The writer of a poem is called a poet.

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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 'I'm as blind as a bat in the dark'.

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What is a stanza?

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A stanza is a group of lines in a poem that are separated by a space.

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Do all poems have to rhyme?

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False. Not all poems must rhyme.

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is personification?

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Personification is giving human qualities to non-human things, like saying 'the wind whispered'.

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Imagery is the use of descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates a picture in the reader's mind.

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem.

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What is a haiku?

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A haiku is a three-line poem with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.