Intro to Poetry

In books, text is organized by sentences and paragraphs. But in poetry, the text is organized by:

• lines and stanzas

• ballads and novels

• phrases and pages

• nothing

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The tree danced around in the breeze, is an example of...

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

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Whack! Went the fly swatter as I hit the fly, is an example of...

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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What is mood?

• The theme

• The author's attitude/feelings

• The reader's attitude/feelings

• The main idea

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Which of the following is language that appeals to the 5 senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing)?

• idiom

• imagery

• allusion

• hyperbole

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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

• A simile compares while a metaphor contrasts.
• A simile uses "like" while a metaphor does not.
• Similes are shorter than metaphors.
• Nothing is different. They are the same thing. 

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True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

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What is the rhyme scheme in the following poem?

Twinkle, twinkle little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle little star.

How I wonder what you are.

• aabbaa

• abcabc

• ababab

• aabbcc

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The following excerpt from "Annabel Lee" contains examples of what?

“It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know …

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,"

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

• haiku

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.  This is an example of...

• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Imagery

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