Poetry Tips Review

What is the first thing that you should do when you see a poem?

• cry

• read the title

• read the whole poem once

• skip it

How should you read a poem?

• Just like how you read anything else; you read the sentences (or until you find a punctuation mark)

• read and stop at the end of each line

• read and stop at the end of the stanza

What is the difference between literal and figurative meaning?

• Literal meaning is the deeper meaning. Figurative meaning is taking words in their most basic sense without deeper meaning.

• Figurative meaning is the deeper meaning. Literal meaning is taking words in their most basic sense without deeper meaning.

What is the last thing you should determine about a poem BEFORE working on the questions?

• the theme and central idea

• the rhyme scheme

• if you liked it or not

What is a stanza?

• a group of lines
• a short poem
• the rhyme scheme
• the way to measure a poem's rhythm

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a couplet?

• a group of lines
• a pair of rhyming lines
• a rhyme scheme
• a pair of poems

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the use of any element of language (sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence) more than once?

• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Meter

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What are words that are used to imitate sounds?

• Rhyme
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance
• Consonance

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is it called when a writer refers to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or piece of literature?

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4