Elements and Types of Poetry

The form of a poem is...

• the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines

• the pattern of rhymes at the beginning of lines

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

• the way the punctuation is arranged

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CCSS.RL.5.4

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The rhyme scheme is the...

• units of stressed syllables at the end of the lines

• measures of stressed and unstressed syllables at the end of the lines

• nonrhyming stanzas at the end of the lines

• pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines

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In poetry, lines are grouped in...

• alphabetical order

• random order

• segments

• stanzas

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Which of the following describes a free verse poem?

• always talks about nature

• written in iambic pentameter

• do not follow a fixed pattern

• a one-stanza, 14-line poem

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A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thing is called...

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as" is called...

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

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The use of words that vividly describe a sound (the word mimics the sound) so that readers can clearly "hear" them is called...

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

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Using words that have the same (or very similar) ending sound is called...

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables is called...

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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Which of the following uses alliteration?

• It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.

• Dyslexics of the world untie!

• Help stamp out, eliminate, and abolish redundancy!

• Darn dogs dancing.

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