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Poetry Flashcards

1
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What is a couplet

A

Two lines of a poem that work together.

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What is a rhyming couplet?

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Two lines of a poem that rhyme.

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What is this arrangement of words called?

Pulsating puppy pimples.

A

alliteration

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines that go together in a section of a poem.

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What is a line in a poem?

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A single line of words in a poem.

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How many lines are in this poem?
“The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson

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Two

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What is it called when an author uses words like “Whirr” for a spinning noise or “Plink-plunk” for the sound of rain?

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Onomatopoeia

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What is “figurative language?”

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When a writer uses similes, metaphors, personification and other imaginative ways of writing.

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Which is an example of figurative language?

  1. My pillow is soft.
  2. My pillow is a big, puffy cloud.
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  1. My pillow is a big, puffy cloud.
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