Elements of Poetry

What are the "paragraphs" of poems?

• sections
• stanzas
• paragraphs
• forms

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which example below is considered a simile?

• I love you to the moon and back!

• The moon is a bright yellowy orb in a dark sky.

• The moon was like a silver coin in the sky tonight

• The moon winked at me.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The structure of a poem is

• the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines

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

• the pattern of rhymes at the beginning of lines

• the way the punctuation is arranged

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is Personification?

• The act of giving human traits to inanimate objects in your writing

• The act of creating the time and place in a story or poem

• The act of appealing to the reader's senses

• The act of creating personable characters

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Imagery in poetry or in writing is

• bandwagon

• vivid language that appeals to the five senses

• loaded language

• dull language that does not appeal to the five senses

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Most poetry is arranged in lines. Lines are

• grouping of words only when used in a complete sentence

• student responses

• groupings of words whether or not a complete sentence

• challenging to explain

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

A four line stanza is a

• Terlet

• Quatter

• Tercet

• Quattrain

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

The rhyme scheme is the

• units of stressed syllables at the end of the lines

• nonrhyming stanzas at the end of the lines

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

• pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A formal poem typically follows a

• fixed, traditional pattern

• non traditional pattern

• free verse

• character and their expressions

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Free verse poems

• do not follow a fixed pattern

• are always about nature

• have a rhyme scheme of 5-7-5

• follow a fixed pattern

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9