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POETRY

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    Poetry term/Elements of Poetry/Figurative language
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  • What is the rhyme scheme?
    a - b - a - b
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  • What is the rhyme scheme?
    a - b - c - b
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  • "The ageless volcano opens its wound." What does this mean?
    The old volcano erupts
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  • "We could not see the moon’s face or hear the whispers of the wind." What does this mean?
    We walked in the darkness and the still night. / It's dark and quiet
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  • What figurative speech used in the sentence? "The ballerina was a flower on the stage."
    Metaphor
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  • What figure of speech that you notice in the sentence? "We’ve been driving all day and we didn’t stop for lunch. We’re hungry as hunters."
    We're hungry as hunters. Simile
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  • What figure of speech that you notice in the sentence? "I can’t stay here and wait any longer. Time is money, you know!"
    Time is money. Metaphor
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  • Stanza is ....
    A grouping of lines
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  • What is a single row of words in a poem called?
    Line
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  • What are words that rhyme in this poem?
    house - mouse
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  • How many lines are in this poem?
    8
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  • What figure of speech that you notice in the sentence? "The sun smiled down on the green meadow."
    Personification
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  • "He would write, but his hours are as busy as bees in the sun." Which type of figurative language?
    Simile
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  • Which type of figurative language compares two unlike things using "as" or "like"?
    Simile
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  • What is figurative language or other words that are used to paint a visual picture for the reader?
    Imagery
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  • The raindrops danced along the window pane. Which type of figurative language?
    Personification
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