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Features of Poetry
Poetry
Rhymes
Examples of Figurative Language
Other
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The group of lines that are separated by a break. (Similar to paragraphs)
What are stanzas?
100
Sonnet
What is a poem with fourteen lines?
100
Approximate Rhyme
What are rhymes that involve sounds that are similar but not exactly the same?
100
Sally was like a snake.
What is an example of a simile. * A simile is comparing something to another thing using like or as.
100
Irony
What is the contrast between expectation and reality.
200
The atmosphere or feelings created throughout the poem.
What is mood?
200
Not rhymed verse of a poem that doesn't contain a metrical pattern
What is a free verse?
200
end rhymes
What are rhymes at the end of lines?
200
It's raining cats and dogs
What is an example of an idiom? * According to Webster's Dictionary, an idiom is defined as: peculiar to itself either grammatically or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements.
200
Analogy
What a comparison between two things to make a point. Ex. leaf: plant :: shoelace: shoe
300
The poet's attitude toward his subject matter.
What is tone?
300
stanza
What is a unit of any given length of a poem called?
300
internal rhyme
What are rhymes within rhymes? Ex: Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning.
300
You are what you eat
What is an example of a metaphor. * A metaphor is saying that you are something.
300
Describing words that paint pictures in your mind. Ex: Let's eat that juicy fruit that is red and plump from the apple tree.
What is Third person omniscient point of view?
400
The words a poet chooses to use.
What is diction?
400
A lengthy narrative poem
What is an epic?
400
assonance
What is the repetition of vowel sounds in words? Ex: bed/head; cake/flake
400
The dog was talking to me
What is an example of personification? * Personification is where a human's traits are given to an animal.
400
Dreams hide and play tricks on us.
What is personification?
500
What is the repetition of same lines throughout the poem (think of a song and the lyrics that are repeatged over and over).
What is a refrain?
500
Couplet
What is a pair of lines of a meter poem?
500
Alliteration
What repeating the same consonant sound. Ex: Sally sells sea shells.
500
Crack! The boys feet were the size of elephants(2)
What are examples of hyperbole's and onomatopoeia's? *An onomatopoeia is a noise spelled out/ A hyperbole is an exaggeration that no one would believe.
500
Underlining, circling, writing notes, asking questions, making interpretations and identifying figures of speech while reading.
What is annotation?