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Types of Poems
Poetic Structure
Rhyme Time
Poetic Devices
Miscellaneous
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What are the 2 types of sonnets?
What are Petrarchan and Shakespearean
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Describe the structure of a Haiku
What is a poem that has 3 lines, the first line with 5 syllables, the second with 7, and the third with 5.
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What is end rhyme?
What is rhyme occurring at the end of each line
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What is personification and give an example?
What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
100
How many lines are in a sonnet?
What is 14 lines
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A poem that directly addresses someone or something cannot respond is called...
What is an apostrophe
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How many syllables are in one iambic foot?
What is 10 syllables.
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What is the rhyme scheme of a free verse poem?
What is there is no rhyme scheme. Each free verse poem is different.
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The best definition of a symbol is...
What is something concrete that stands for something abstract
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How many lines are in a sestet?
What are 6 lines
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What is a conceit?
What is a poem with an extended metaphor that compares two unlike things.
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This type of poem is always made up of an octave followed by a sestet
What is Petrarchan sonnet
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What is approximate rhyme?
What is when two words have similar vowel sounds in them, but do not completely rhyme.
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What is an onomatopoeia and give an example.
A word that is spelled the same as the sound associated with it. (ex. buzz, honk, beep, boom, crash, thump, bang)
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What does it mean to paraphrase something?
What is it means to summarize lines of poetry and put them into your own words.
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A poem with a musical rhythm is called...
What is a lyric poem
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What is a stanza of four lines called?
What is a quatrain.
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What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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What is an allusion?
What is when an author makes a reference to another piece of literature within their writing (example, biblical references)
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Who wrote "Let America Be America Again?"
Who is Langston Hughes
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What is the rhythmic pattern of a sonnet?
What is iambic pentameter (stressed and unstressed syllables)
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What is the structure of a sestina
What is six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet
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What is the rhyme scheme for a Petrarchan sonnet?
What is ABBAABBA CDECDE
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What is a similarity and a difference between a metaphor and a simile?
What is both compare two things, but a simile uses "like" or "as" and a metaphor does not.
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How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
What is 154