Elements of Poetry

The _________ are like paragraphs in a poem. 

• stanzas
• lines
• rhyme scheme
• figurative language

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A _______ in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph.  

• stanza
• line
• rhyme 
• figurative language

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Words or phrases that are used in a creative way to "spice" up a story or poem. Examples are similes, metaphors, and personification. 

• imagery
• rhyme scheme
• mood
• figurative language

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A group of lines in a poem:

• Stanza

• Line

• Sentence

• Paragraph

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Give an example of personification

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

• The sun is like a light bulb.

• The sun smiled at us.

• The tree was large.

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What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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Identify the simile below...

• The tree danced in the wind.
• She is as tall as a tree!
• That cat is the devil.
• My backpack weighs a thousand tons!

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Instead of a paragraph, in poetry we call the chunks...

• stanzas
• sections
• staza
• stan

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Which term means "the writer's attitude?

• mood

• tone

• point of view

• feeling

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Stanzas are like paragraphs in a poem.

• True

• False

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