Poetic Justice
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Mystery Corner
100
What is a rhyme scheme?
A rhyme scheme tells us which lines of a poem will rhyme with one another.
100
"The sky was dressed in blue." "The clouds swallowed the sun." These sentences are examples of which of the following": personification, metaphor, or onomatopoeia?
These are both examples of personification, because they give human qualities to non-human things.
100
What is alliteration?
Alliteration is when all the words in a sentence start with the same letter (Sally sold seashells by the seashore).
200
Many poems are divided into stanzas. A stanza is very similar to which of the following: a sentence, a phrase, or a paragraph?
A stanza is similar to a paragraph. Just like a paragraph is a group of sentences, a stanza is a group of lines in a poem, usually separated by a space.
200
"I am delighted you have arrived." "I'm glad you're here." The difference between these two sentences is an example of _______ (starts with a d).
Diction! Diction is about the words an author chooses to use. Diction can make the mood or vocabulary level of two sentences very different, even if the sentences mean similar things.
300
All sonnets share the same kind of meter. What is meter? BONUS: What kind of meter do sonnets have?
Meter is the number of syllables in a line. Each line of a sonnet has TEN syllables (iambic pentameter).
300
"Freedom is a river." "Freedom is like a river." Which of these sentences is a metaphor?
The first sentence is a metaphor, because metaphors directly compare two things. The second sentence is a simile, which says two things are *similar* to each other by using "like" or "as."
300
True or false: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is an example of a parallelism.
True! Parallelism using repeating words or structures to form a pattern (in this case, the pattern is built around "it was.")
400
Name one way to figure out the tone of a poem.
The attitude or mood of the narrator; the author's word choices and imagery choices; the way you feel while reading it
400
Find an object in this room and write a sentence about it using personification!
Yay!
400
In a sonnet, an octave has how many lines?
Eight lines!
500
True or false: All sonnets have the same rhyme scheme.
False!
500
"The American flag symbolizes America." In this sentence, what does "symbolize" mean?
To "symbolize" is to represent something or someone else.
500
Give an example of irony.
Irony
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