Elements of Poetry

A poem is divided into what?

• sentences

• stanzas

• paragraphs

• passages

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CCSS.RL.6.5

____________________ is a poem that tells as story.

• Narrative poem

• Ode

• Sonnet

• Lyric poem

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CCSS.W.6.9B

A ______________ __________ expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet, is generally short, and is often unrhymed.

• lyric poem

• ode

• elegy

• sonnet

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CCSS.L.6.4A

A long lyric poem that celebrates something, someone, or some event in life is called an

• ode

• sonnet

• octave

• free verse

The point at which a line of poetry ends

• refrain

• line break

• stanza

• period

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CCSS.L.6.4A

When a line or lines are repeated in a poem or song it is called the

• refrain

• lyric

• tune

• melody

True or False There are many different types of poems

• True

• False

Poetry that has no fixed meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement is called

• end rhyme

• middle rhyme

• metaphor

• free verse

A _______ uses like or as to compare two unlike things.

• simile

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.RL.6.4

A _______ compares or equates two different things and does not use like or as in the comparison

• simile

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

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