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  • Identify the rhyme scheme: "I didn't want to teach, So I went to the beach, The sky was so blue, Next time you should come too!"
  • What is an example of a 'rhyming couplet.'
  • List 3 examples of figurative language
  • What is a common genre in 'Australian Ballads?'
  • What is a 'rhyming couplet' and what is a 'quatrain?'
  • What emotions are expressed in lyric poetry?
  • They chained us two by two and whipped and lashed us all along, They cut off our provisions if we did the least thing wrong. They march us in burning sun until our feet are sore, So hard’s our lot now we have got all on Van Diemen’s shore"
  • Give an example of a contemporary song which you would define as 'lyric poetry.'
  • You often refer to me as a unit or paragraph within a poem. What am I?
  • A Ballad is...
    A story in poetic form
  • Explain one way which we can create imagery
  • What are the 4 main types of Ballads
    Love, Tragedy, Comedy, Heroic
  • In the song, 'Beautiful Child,' what images come to mind?
  • Give an example of an 'oxymoron.'
  • True or false: There is a set number of stanzas required in Ballads.