Intro to Poetry

Intro to Poetry

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In books, text is organized by sentences and paragraphs. But in poetry, the text is organized by:

• lines and stanzas

• ballads and novels

• phrases and pages

• nothing

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A small part to a whole poem is...

• A stanza
• End rhyme
• Internal rhyme
• repetition

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What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author
• Speaker
• Narrator
• Main character

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The birds sang in the trees.  This is an example of...

• stanza
• diction
• simile
• personification

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Using the five sense to paint a picture in the reader's mind is known as...

• stanza
• diction
• metaphors
• imagery

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The choice and use of words in writing or speaking.

• Imagery
• Diction
• Hyperbole
• Simile

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Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• The repetition of a letter.
• The repetition of an ending sound.

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True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

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Repeating the same thing over and over again for added emphasis is called...

• alliteration
• repetition
• personification
• metaphor

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An exaggeration that is so far fetched, that it's not possible is a ...

• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole
• stanza

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Why does a poet write with stanzas?

• Poems have to have stanzas in order to be correctly written.
• The poet is organizing his thoughts and ideas like paragraphs.
• There is no reason a poet breaks the poem into stanzas. 
• Stanzas show that one character is speaking for a long period of time.

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Why do poets use figurative language?

• To try to confuse the reader
• To interest the reader and to provide detailed descriptions
• To exaggerate what the poem is about 
• To show the theme of the poem

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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

• A simile compares while a metaphor contrasts.
• A simile uses "like" while a metaphor does not.
• Similes are shorter than metaphors.
• Nothing is different. They are the same thing. 

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What is mood?

• The theme

• The author's attitude/feelings

• The reader's attitude/feelings

• The main idea

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The following excerpt from "Annabel Lee" contains examples of what?

“It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know …

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,"

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

• haiku

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Whack! Went the fly swatter as I hit the fly, is an example of...

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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The tree danced around in the breeze, is an example of...

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

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How many stanzas does this poem have?

Archery

It’s like touching without touching,

except when there is, also, touching.

We pull the bowstrings back

and parallel together,

aiming a handsbreadth higher

than we believe we intend,

and let the glove move where we draw the wire,

scared that the machinery

will misinterpret us,

that we may not stop trembling, that we may lose

our belief in ourselves

before anything is released, or shared, or sent.

• 5

• 2

• 4

• 3

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"Her eyes are like the sun" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• synonym