About Poems
Vocabulary
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The type of poem that addresses a thing or person that is not present.

What is apostrophe?

100

The repetition of a word or a phrase at the start of several lines of a poem.

What is anaphora?

100

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of use instead poems paragraphs stanzas

What is poems use stanzas instead of paragraphs?

200

Poems are made up of these two things.

What are lines and stanzas?

200

A poetry device that is an indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or historical event. 

What is allusion?
200

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150 tree feet tall can beech be copper a over

What is a copper beech tree can be over 150 feet tall?

300

The pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem.

What is a rhyme scheme?

300

This word means out of this world. 

What is mystical?

300

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by the the saved crow was day

What is the day was saved by the crow?

400

A type of poem in which each stanza repeats at least one line form elsewhere in the poem and is made up of 19 lines. 

What is villanelle?

400

This word means to be held motionless.

What is transfixed?

500

The poem is made up of a four-line stanza.

What is a quatrain?

500

A poetry device that links two ideas by repeating the same form in a series of lines.

What is parallel structure?

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