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Very fine is my valentine. Very fine and very mine. Very mine is my valentine very mine and very fine. Very fine is my valentine and mine, very fine very mine and mine is my valentine.
What is "A Very Valentine"
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a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.
What is motif?
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Creator of Winnie the Pooh stories and poems
Who is A.A. Milne?
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All the nice warm nights and the beautiful day sky why summer is mine
What is Haiku?
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A wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he heard the less he _______
What is spoke
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Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
What is "April Rain Song"
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the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound.
What is rhythm
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Poet who wrote, "A Very Valentine"
Who is Gertrude Stein
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Sun shines Birds are chirping It's becoming hotter A chilled iced tea sitting with me Stay Cold
What is a Traditional Cinquain
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For what do you scream, I scream and we all scream?
What is ice cream?
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Butterflies are white and blue In this field we wander through. Suffer me to take your hand. Death comes in a day or two. All the things we ever knew Will be ashes in that hour, Mark the transient butterfly, How he hangs upon the flower. Suffer me to take your hand. Suffer me to cherish you Till the dawn is in the sky. Whether I be false or true, Death comes in a day or two.
What is "Mariposa"
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the repetition of the same sound from the same letters...aunt auggie ate...
What is alliteration
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Most famous Japanese Haiku poet
Who is Basho
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The old man rocking back in his chair Thinking of all the time he doesn't have left to spare He sits and looks at the fireplace And a memory fills him with a warm embrace
What is a narrative poem?
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When was it when "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse"?
What is the night before Christmas?
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And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
What is "I Have a Dream"
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a popular term within poetry that refers to a smaller unit within a poem or a verse within a song.
What is stanza
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Poet who pinned, "April Rain Song"
Who is Langston Hughes
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From the depths of the emerald sea Lurk the creatures, unknown and not believed Their sapphire scales glint in the stunted light Their yellows eyes glow oh so bright
What is a lyrical poem?
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Where can you eat peanuts and Cracker Jacks and not care if you ever get back?
What is a baseball game?
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"What's twice eleven?" I said to Pooh. ("Twice what?" said Pooh to Me.) "I think it ought to be twenty-two." "Just what I think myself," said Pooh. "It wasn't an easy sum to do, But that's what it is," said Pooh, said he. "That's what it is," said Pooh.
What is "Us Two"
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a repeated part of a poem, particularly when it comes either at the end of a stanza or between two stanzas
What is refrain?
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Orator who wrote and spoke, "I have a Dream"
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Baltimore Ravens The Super Bowl will be theirs, World Champions? Yes!
What is a Haiku?
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What is another way of spelling the word time that means something very different?
What is thyme? (An herb...)