Basic Introduction to Poetry

Basic Introduction to Poetry

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What are lines in poetry?

• Random group of words

• Group of words from the left to the right.

• Group of words from the right to the left

• I don't know

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What are stanzas?

• A few lines

• A group of lines separated by a space

• A group of words

• I don't know

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What do we call people who write poems?

• A writer

• An author

• A poet

• I don't know

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What is rhyming scheme?

• words that have the same rhyming sounds

• words that have no rhyming sounds

• I don't know

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Look at the cat

he is so fat

he likes to nap

on Suzie's lap

What is the rhyming scheme of the stanza?

• A B A B

• A A B B

• A B B A

• I don't know

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Rhythm of a poem is related to music.

• True

• False

• I don't know

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Rhythm can be described as the beat and pace of a poem.

• True

• False

• I don't know

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Rhythm is not created by the pattern of the stressed syllables in a line or a stanza.

• True

• False

• I don't know

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Rhythm can help ______ the meaning of the words and the ideas in a poem.

• create

• strengthen

• I don't know

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A syllable is the number of times you hear a __________ when pronouncing the words.

• sound of a vowel

• sound of a consonant

• I don't know

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How many syllables are there in the word: apple

• 1

• 2

• 3

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How many syllables are in the word - broken ?

• 1

• 2

• 3

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How many syllables are in the word - hospital

• 1

• 2

• 3

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In word that have more than one syllable, one of the syllables is pronounced more strongly than others.

• True

• False

• I don't know

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What do we call the syllable that is pronounced more strongly?

• Unstressed syllable

• Stressed syllable

• I don't know