Free verse poetry

What are the guidelines of a free verse poem?

• It must be at least 6 lines

• It has to rhyme

• There are no specific guidelines

• It must have 6 syllables

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Dr. Suess mainly wrote free verse poems.

• True

• False

What is alliteration?

• A car part

• A literary device where the first sound in a series of words is the same

• A literary device that promotes rhyming sounds at the end of lines

• A guideline in free verse poetry

What is personification?

• Giving human characteristics to something that is non-human

• Giving a person non-human characteristics

• A literary device that gives detail to characters.

• A part of a car

Poet Walt Whitman wrote many free verse poems.

• True

• False