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A comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
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This type of poetry originated in Japan.
What is haiku?
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This poet is famous for A Road Less Traveled.
What is Robert Frost?
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This is one line of a poem.
What is a line?
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A competition of spoken poems in front of judges and audience members.
What is a poetry slam?
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A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
This type of poem is in the shape of a diamond.
What is a diamante poem?
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This famous poet talks about a Dream Defered.
What is Langston Hughes?
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This is at least two lines of a poem.
What is a stanza?
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Our final project is this.
What is poetry slam?
300
This is giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
300
This type of poem tells a story.
What is narrative poem?
300
This poet first wrote Where I'm From.
What is George Ella Lyon?
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An example looks like this. A A B B A
What is rhyme scheme?
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You must bring one of these by next Friday.
What is a white t-shirt?
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This is a word that sounds like its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
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This type of poem takes a shape.
What is a shape poem?
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This poet never wants to take the garbage out.
What is Shel Silverstein?
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A haiku has three lines with 5-7-5 of these.
What is syllables?
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This is what you'll do with your white t-shirt.
What is Write poetry on it?
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This is a reference to something else well known.
What is allusion?
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This type of poetry has no rhyme or meter.
What is free verse?
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You can find many of your favorite poets on this website.
What is poetryfoundation.org?
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A haiku has this many lines.
What is three?
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Sally sells seashells by the seashore is an example of this.
What is alliteration?