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Figurative Language
Poetry Difference
Types of Prose/Poetry
100
Stanza
What is a section or division of a poem?
100
Prose
What is most everyday writing is considered this?
100
True
True or False: Newspaper articles are considered works of prose?
200
Simile
What is a figure of speech that uses 'like' or 'as' to compare two different objects, actions, or attributes?
200
Straightforward
The language of poetry is decorative and figurative as compared to how _____________ prose.
200
Free Verse
What is poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme?
300
Metaphor
What is a figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another?
300
Paragraph
What is the line break or division of lines in prose called?
300
False
True or False: Poetry is a collection of words that cannot tell a story.
400
Rhythm
What is the pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables?
400
Foot
What is a metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables?
400
Sonnet
What is a fourteen line of poem in iambic pentameter?
500
Personification
What is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas?
500
Iamb
What is an unstressed syllable followed by stressed one?
500
Blank Verse
What is a line of poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter?