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what is a Prose?✨

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Any descriptive or artistic written work that isn’t poetry.

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what is a Metaphor?

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A comparison of two things not using like or as

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what is a Simile ?

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✨A comparison of two things using like or as

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what is Personification?

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Giving non-human things human characteristics or actions. (ex: the wind whistled in the trees.)

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what is an Onamonapia?

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words that sound like what they are. (Splat, Pow, Crash, Thump)✨✨✨

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what is Rhythm?

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the flow of written or spoken poetry

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what is a Rhyme?

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When two or more words end with the same sound: can be within the same sentence, or two or more sentences in a stanza ending with the same sound.(ex: I love blue, and you do too.)

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what is a Theme?✨✨✨

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the central topic, message, or moral of a creative work

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what is Imagery?

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Using words to vividly describe something, painting a picture for the reader.

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what is Alliteration?

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Two or more words starting with the same letter (ex:Batman bought bananas.)

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Assonance

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Repetition of sound within a poem. (ex: How now, brown cow?)

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what is an Acrostic?

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Theme Word down the left hand column of poem

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what is a Couplet✨✨✨

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a poem made up of lines ending in rhyme pairs. (AA, BB, CC…)

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what is a Free verse

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a poem that doesn’t follow a strict rhyme scheme

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what is a Haiku

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✨5-7-5- syllable count, about nature✨

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what is a Concrete poem

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a poem in the shape of it’s topic

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what is a Sonnet

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an 8 line story poem with this structure (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)

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Why is it helpful to know language roots?

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They are the building blocks of many words. They help us understand the meaning of new words

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Why do we as English speakers specifically study Greek and Latin roots?✨

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English is a hybrid of those two languages in many ways

20
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Why do so many countries speak languages based in Greek and Latin?

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Empires! Greek (Greek) & Roman (Latin) spread language through their empires

21
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what does Flect/Flex mean

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bend

22
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what does Vis/Vid mean

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see

23
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what does Chron mean

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✨time✨

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what does Vers/Vert mean

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turn

25
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what does Dict mean✨

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say

26
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what does Tele mean

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far away

26
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what does Graph/Gram mean

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write/draw

27
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what does Struct mean

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✨build✨

28
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what does Meter mean

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measure

29
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what does Bio mean✨

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Life

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