What is Poetry Flocabulary Review

What is true about poetry?

• Poets choose words for their meaning and sound.

• Poetry is always written in strict form.

• Poets never read their poems aloud.

• Unlike prose, poetry is written in straightforward language.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

Which of the following is not a type of poem?

• a sonnet

• a news article

• a limerick

• a haiku

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

True or False: Poems must follow grammatical rules.

• False

• True

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Alliteration, rhyme and onomatopoeia are all examples of

• meters.

• image devices.

• prose.

• sound devices.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

Which of the following does not use figurative language?

• "The frog sat like a bump on a log in the fog."

• "The fog comes on little cat feet."

• "Fog appeared in the harbor and city."

• "Fog fell over the lake like a ghostly waterfall."

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Rhyming is when some words

• sound exactly the same.

• are spelled the same way.

• have the same definition.

• sound alike.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme in the following poem excerpt?

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

• ABBA

• AABA

• ABAB

• AAAB

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which poetic device is used in the following line?

Paulina put the pretty pink petunias into pots.

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

Which poetic device is used in the following line?

The water plopped into the lake in big droplets.

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

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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

Which poetic device is used in the following line?

The river swallowed the town whole.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.10