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When a line of poetry extends into the middle of the next line, it is known as ___________?
What is enjambment
100
Alternating stressed and unstressed syllables, usually 10 per line
What is iambic pentameter
100
A fourteen-line poem, that typically has ten syllables per line
What is a sonnet
100
The characteristics of a group or region's language
What is dialect
100

A word that imitates the sound it describes

What is onomatopoeia

200
The repetition of consonant sounds
What is consonance
200
The words rhyme at the ends of the lines
What is end rhyme
200
The flow of sound and silence
What is rhythm
200
The understood or implied meaning of a word or phrase
What is connotation
200

Where is Ms. Masamba from?

What is Uganda

300
Verse that has structure, but does not rhyme
What is blank verse
300
The words at the end of the lines look like they should rhyme, but they don't
What is slant rhyme
300
The structure of a poem's rhythm
What is meter
300
The literal definition of a word
What is denotation
300

A question asked to make a point; a reply is not expected

What is a rhetorical question

400
Repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance
400
Rhyming words are found inside the lines and at the end of the lines
What is an internal rhyme
400
A symbolic representation of something (like a moral/lesson)
What is an allegory
400
A person speaks to an imaginary or abstract idea
What is an apostrophe
400

What Soccer team does Ms. Masamba root for? 

What is Chelsea

500
No structure, no rhyme...also known as ______________.
What is free verse
500
A couple of rhyming lines
What is a couplet
500
Figures of speech are examples of ____________.
What is figurative language
500
When the words in a sentence or several sentences have the same structure
What is parallel structure
500

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