Poetry, Please!

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

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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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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

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In poetry, what is "meter" ?

• Words that sound the same
• Sophisticated vocabulary
• The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
• The length of a poem

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In "Papaya Tree," Thanhha Lai writes,

A seed

like a fish eye,

slippery

shiny black.

This is an example of:

• a simile

• alliteration

• imagery

• all of these

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

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

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

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“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

What figurative language does Wordsworth use?

• Simile

• Personification

• Rhyme

• All of these

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Refrain
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Simile

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a form of poetry that tells a story and has a setting, characters, and a plot 

• ode
• narrative poem
• rhyme
• haiku

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5