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3 Main Types
Sound Devices
Rhyme
Figurative Language
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These are the three main types of poetry.
What is lyric, narrative & dramatic?
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“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.” This is an example of primarily what sound device?
What is alliteration?
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Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. This is an example of two types of rhyme. What are they?
What is exact and end rhyme?
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Figurative language is defined as language that is not meant to be ____________________________.
What is interpreted literally?
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This is the denotation of the word "radical."
: very new and different from what is traditional or ordinary : very basic and important : having extreme political or social views that are not shared by most people
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. This is an example of what kind of poetry.
What is lyric?
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.” This is an example of primarily what sound device?
What is onomatopoeia?
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Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know That we riddled two middlemen who didn’t do diddly This is an example of what kind of rhyme?
What is internal rhyme?
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The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings. This is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is simile?
200
This is the connotation of the word "radical."
A word used by people over the age of 30 in an attempt to sound cool, usually resulting in the opposite - see also Michaelangelo of the Ninja Turtles. Jim: (to friend) Hey check it out I got a new snowboard. Jim's mom: (overhearing conversation) Yeah its totally radical. Jim: OK you can go away now.
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“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore— Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” This is an example of what kind of poetry.
What is dramatic?
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Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne’er the more despair; If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve; If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be? This is primarily an example of what kind of sound device?
What is consonance?
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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun 
 This is an example of what kind of rhyme.
What is slant rhyme?
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“Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?” This is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is personification?
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These are the "paragraphs of poetry."
What are stanzas?
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; This is an example of what kind of poetry?
What is narrative?
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I lie down by the side fo my bride Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese Hear the lark and harden to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground This is an example of primarily what sound device?
What is assonance?
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Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground 
 This is an example of what two kinds of rhyme?
What is exact and end rhyme?
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference" This is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is metaphor?
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This is the fancy word for "rhythmic patterns."
What is meter?
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This kind of poetry presents a character's point of view and not the author's.
What is dramatic?
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"Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds" This is primarily an example of what sound device?
What is assonance?
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"Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown…." This is an example of what kind of rhyme?
What is slant rhyme?
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“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.” This is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is personification?
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Poetry is defined by having all three of these elements.
What is diction, emotional associations & musicality?