Poetry Elements & "O Captain! My Captain!"

What is repetition in a poem?

• The sounds of a poem.

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

• The use of sounds, words, phrases or whole lines more than once.

• Knowing what is important in the poem.

The structure of a poem is

• the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines

• the way the words, lines, and groups of lines are arranged

• the pattern of rhymes at the beginning of lines

• the way the punctuation is arranged

An elegy is

• a free verse poem reflecting on death or another serious theme

• a formal poem of honor or celebration

• a free verse poem of honor or celebration

• a formal poem reflecting on death or another serious theme

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is an example of rhyme?

• We love school. School is cool.

• My hat is red. My hat is blue.

• Singing loud as a siren.

• Always answer and ask

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is an example of repetition?

• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

• And miles to go before I sleep.

  And miles to go before I sleep.

• Shake it like a Polaroid picture!

• A host of golden daffodils

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that have the same ending sounds within a line of poetry are called ______.

Examples: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak, and weary,"

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping."

• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that rhyme at the ends of two or more lines of poetry are called ______.

Example: "The girl walked down the street.

She was looking for something to eat."

• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Extended Metaphor

• Free Verse

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• author

• poet

• speaker

• main character

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CCSS.RL.3.1

A group of lines that are together in a poem is called a

• paragraph

• stanza

• line

• section

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CCSS.RL.7.5