HMH Into Literature Unit 4 Academic Vocabulary

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A form of autobiographical writing in which the author shares a specific personal experience or event.

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What is a memoir?

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A type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in specific ways to create an effect.

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What is poetry?

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The voice that talks to the reader, similar to a narrator in a story.

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What is a speaker in a poem?

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The way a poem is laid out on the page.

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What does 'form' refer to in poetry?

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Groups of lines in a poem.

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What are stanzas?

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Poems that follow strict rules about lines, stanzas, rhythm, and rhyme.

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What are traditional poems?

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Poems that do not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme.

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What are free verse poems?

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A pattern of rhyme that repeats across the different stanzas in traditional poems.

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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Techniques used to give poetry a musical quality.

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What are sound devices in poetry?

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The repetition of sounds at the end of words, such as in 'night' and 'fright'.

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What is rhyme in poetry?