Poetry Basics

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

Define "rhyme."

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

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.

• Musical
• Old-fashioned
• Important
• Difficult

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

What device is comparing two unlike things by saying one thing IS another?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

What device gives human characteristics to a non-living thing?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy as a bee
Living the life

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Rhyme

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Simile