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any writing that uses words for their sound and rhythm as well as their meaning
What is poetry?
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words that sound alike at the end - bat, hat, cat
What is rhyme?
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pair of rhyming lines in a poem
What is a couplet?
100
repeating the same beginning sound of a word
What is alliteration? Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers
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pattern of rhyming words in a poem
What is rhyme pattern? aa, bb, cc
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someone who writes poems
What is a poet?
200
poetry that does not rhyme or have meter
What is free verse?
200
a comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile? She was as fast as the wind.
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words that are sounds - buzz, wham, boom
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The cake was as light as a feather.
What is an example of a simile?
300
a piece of poetry
What is a poem?
300
writing that is not poetry -regular writing
What is prose?
300
a comparison of two things without using like or as -
What is metaphor? The girl was a fish in the water.
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exaggerating or making something bigger than it is - the biggest dog in the whole world; the meanest man that ever lived
What is hyperbole?
300
It was the hardest test in the history of the world.
What is an example of hyperbole?
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groups of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in a poem
What is a stanza?
400
words to a song
What are lyrics?
400
describing something that is not human as if it were human The flowers danced. The wind sang. The birds laughed.
What is personification?
400
a classification or category
What is a genre?
400
pain, gain, sane, plain
What are rhyming words?
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saying the same word or words again and again
What is repetition?
500
patterns of stressed and non stressed sounds in a poem 'Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.'
What is rhythm?
500
hungry as a horse
What is a simile?
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words that sound the same but have different meanings- there, their, they're
What are homophones?
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Grandmothers grow green grapes.
What is an example of alliteration?
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