Poetry Structure
What is a line?
A vowel and the surrounding consonants (hint: you can clap along with the word)
What is a Syllable?
When words or groups of words appear more than once more than once
What is End Rhyme?
This man carried his horse and lived in a hole called "Backward Hill"
Who is Backward Bill?
A group of lines, a verse
What is a stanza?
A Syllable that is a little louder and longer than other syllables
Words like "Bang" and "Woof" that mimic a real sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
When words Rhyme with other words in the same line.
What is Internal Rhyme?
He can't scratch his nose without cutting himself, or hold his phone without breaking it.
Who is Captain Hook?
The area around the text in a poem.
What is White Space?
What is an Unstressed Syllable?
Repeating the same sound at the beginnings of words.
What is Alliteration?
When the writer cheats and adds words that Almost Rhyme, but don't.
What is Slant Rhyme?
Why is the Former Foreman not the Foreman anymore?
He got fired for demolishing the wrong house.
What is rhyme?
What is Meter?
Teams like the Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Seattle Sea Hawks use this part of sound in poetry
What is Alliteration
The Pattern of Rhymes at the end of lines in a poem
What is Rhyme Scheme?
In "Smart", why was the boy's dad so proud of him?
He wasn't, because the boy gave away almost all his money.
Why split a poem into stanzas? Think about Strange Restaurant or the Poem version of Twinkle Twinkle little star.
Different rhyming words, different topic, separates a single idea.
NAture's first GREEN is GOLD
Her HARDest HUE to HOLD
What is Onomatopoeia?
The rhyme scheme of the following lines:
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Some one had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
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In "Strange Restaurant", why did the customer keep changing his order?