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poetry definitions, review of poems studied

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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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What is a stanza of 4 lines called?

quatrain

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What is a stanza of 2 lines called?

couplet

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What is a stanza of 14 lines called?

sonnet

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What is the pattern of unstressed / stressed syllables called?

iambic

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What is an oxymoron?

combining two opposite words like jumbo shrimp or bittersweet

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What does "diction" mean?

word choice

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Give example of alliteration.

answers will vary

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A work that contains events invented by an author

Fiction

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Imaginative writing with ____ characters in a true-to-life _____

believable, setting

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Plot twist is what?

A plot development that violates the reader's expectations

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Reader anxiety resulting from the author's withholding of plot details

suspense

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The narrator has full acces to the thoughts and feelings of only ______ character.

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