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Elements of Poetry

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  • The way a poem is laid out on the page, how it "looks"
    Form
    Line
    Stanza
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  • Free Verse
    Poems with no recognizable patterns or rules
    Poems that have an ABAB rhyme scheme
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  • Rhythm
    when the words on the end of the lines sound the same
    the musical quality produced by the repetition syllables
    when stanzas have 4 lines
    sentences and paragraphs
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  • premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound
    rhyme
    meter
    prose
    rhyme scheme
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  • a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
    couplet
    quatrain
    rhythm
    triplet
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  • a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
    quatrains
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  • What is the name for the space left between stanzas to let the reader pause.
    line break
    stanza
    meter
    breakout room
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  • a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs
    rhyme
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  • giving human characteristics to non-human things
    pun
    personification
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  • The tree whispered in the wind is an example of__________.
    metaphor
    pun
    simile
    personification
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  • the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (Silly Sally sat in the sapphire seat)
    personification
    summary
    alliteration
    pun
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  • "Tim, the terrifying tiger" is an example of _________
    alliteration
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  • What figurative language compares two things using like or as
    idiom
    simile
    metaphor
    hyperbole
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  • The cloud was fluffy like cotton candy. This is an example of a _____________
    simile
    metaphor
    pun
    idiom
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  • He was a tornado, blasting through the opposing team.This is an example of a ____________
    pun
    metaphor
    idiom
    simile
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  • exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
    hyperbole
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