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boom
Lose 50 points!
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gift
Win 5 points!
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fairy
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banana
Go to last place!
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heart
Other team wins 5 points!
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star
Double points!
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fairy
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thief
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Couplets
A pair of rhyming lines in a poem often set off from the rest of the poem. Shakespeare’s sonnets all end in couplets.
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Prose
Writing organized into sentences and paragraphs. In other words, normal writing—not poetry.
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thief
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gift
Win 20 points!
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shark
Other team loses 15 points!
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thief
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Free Verse
Poetry with no set meter (rhythm) or rhyme scheme.
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End rhyme
Rhyming words that are at the ends of their respective lines—what we typically think of as normal rhyme.
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Iambic pentameter
Ten-syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed. For example: “With eyes like stars upon the brave night air.”
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banana
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star
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rocket
Go to first place!
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banana
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Internal rhyme
A rhyme that occurs within one line such as “He’s King of the Swing.”
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Figurative Language
Language that does not mean exactly what it says. For example, you can call someone who is very angry “steaming.”
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Meter
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem.
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Sonnet
A fourteen-line poem written iambic pentameter. Different kinds of sonnets have different rhyme schemes.
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Lyric
A type of poetry that expresses the poet’s emotions. It often tells some sort of brief story, engaging the reading in the experience.
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Stanza
A section of poetry separated from the sections before and after it; a verse “paragraph.”
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Elegy
A poem mourning the dead.
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