English 10 Poetry Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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poetry definitions, review of poems studied

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Red, yellow, blue, or green? Alliteration

yellow

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Red, yellow, blue, or green? metaphor

blue

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Red, yellow, blue, or green? personification

blue

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Red, yellow, blue, or green? synesthesia

green

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Red, yellow, blue, or green? rhyme

red

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Red, yellow, blue, or green? cacaphony

yellow

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Red, yellow, blue, or green? enjambment

red

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True or False? "The Optimist" was about having hope in heaven.

true

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True or False? "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun" is about how real love is more special than perfect love in poems.

true

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True or False? "The Centaur" is about learning to deal with life's difficultues.

false

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True or False? Langston Hughes' poems were about believing in heaven.

false

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What is free verse?

poetry with no set rhyme or meter

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What is a caesura?

a pause in the middle of a line

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What is a simile?

a comparison using like or as

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Who wrote the sonnets "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day?" and :"My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun"?

Shakespeare

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Who wrote "Harlem" and "Dreams?"

Langston Hughes

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