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Poetry Review

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    Poetry vocabulary
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  • What is: A type of writing used to convey ideas, experiences, and emotions in a vivid and imaginative way.
    poetry
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  • What a poem is about?
    topic
  •  10
  • This is the use of words to help the reader see, hear, taste, feel, or smell what is being talked about in the poem.
    sensory language
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  • This is when poetry has the no rhyme pattern and expresses the poet's opinion about a topic. 
    Free verse
  •  15
  • This is a poem that contains rhyming words.
    lyrical
  •  15
  • This is a poem that tells a story, it rhymes, and we hear the voices of the speaker/characters.
    narrative
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  • a group of lines that make up a poem is called:
    stanza
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  • What are the feeling expressed to the reader in a poem called?
    mood/tone
  •  20
  • poetry written with rhyming words and a beat. (looking for 2 words)
    rhyme/meter
  •  20
  • What is the opposite of what is said called?
    irony
  •  20
  • What type of figurative language is this: I have a tiny frog, his name is terrible Tim.
    alliteration
  •  20
  • What figurative language is used in this poem? At night my brother snores so loud it sounds just like a riot. Even when he sleeps my noisy brother isn't quiet.
    simile
  •  20
  • What figurative language is used in this poem? His eyes were bright blue like the sky's nearly night. His nose was like a bulb with a red shaded light.
    simile
  •  20
  • What figurative language is used in this poem? School is a station where little children go to become little engineers to guide the world.
    metaphor
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  • What figurative language is used in this poem? The night is a big black cat. The moon is her topaz eye, The stars are the mice she hunts at night, In the field of the sultry sky.
    metaphor
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  • What type of poem is this an example of? free verse or lyrical My oak tree wears a birdhouse like a locket on a limb. He loves to hold the birds. They always sing to him.
    lyrical
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