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Poetry Unit

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  • How did Jack feel about poetry at first in "Love That Dog"
    Not confident
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  • What poet inspires Jack's writing?
    Walter Dean Myers
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  • What is a simile?
    Comparing two things using like or as
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  • What is a metaphor?
    Comparing two things without using like or as
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  • What is an onomatopoeia?
    A word that imitates the sound it represents
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  • Why does Jack's mother use sign language?
    She is deaf
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  • What is personification?
    Gives human qualities to non-human objects or things
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  • True or False: "Love That Dog" and "Hate That Cat" are narrative poems?
    True
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  • What is a stanza?
    A poem version of a paragraph
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  • How do words rhyme?
    The words have the same ending sound
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  • What is rhythm in poems?
    The poem follows a beat like in music
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  • What is a line break in poems?
    A place where the line ends
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  • What is alliteration?
    Repetition of the same beginning constant sound in multiple words
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  • What is a idiom?
    A phrase that has meaning different than the literal words
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  • What is a hyperbole?
    An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally
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  • What is theme?
    The message that the poem or story conveys. (What the author wants you to know)
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