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Elements of Poetry

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  • The way a poem is laid out on the page, how it "looks"
    Fitness
    Beauty
    Fashion
    Form
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  • Free Verse
    Poems with no recognizable patterns or rules (no rhyming, etc)
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  • Rhythm
    the musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables. "the beat of the poem"
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  • a poetic device which is used at the end of a line and the beginning of the next line in a poem. Also, it can be described as a point where a line is divided into two halves at the end of a line
    rest stop
    lunch break
    gas station
    line break
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  • poems that follow strict rules about lines, stanzas, rhythm and rhyme
    traditional verse
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  • premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound
    puzzle
    meter
    ruler
    inch
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  • a literary device defined as having two successive rhyming lines in verse and having the same meter to form a complete thought. marked by a usual rhythm, rhyme scheme
    twinz
    dubbles
    couplets
    pears
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  • A division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme
    stanza
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  • "Hey Diddle, Diddle/The Cat and the Fiddle" this is an example of a ____________
    simile
    pasta
    couplet
    stupid narrator
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  • a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs
    rhyme
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  • giving human characteristics to non-human things
    personification
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  • The tree whispered in the wind is an example of__________.
    personification
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  • the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
    alliteration
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  • "Tim, the terrifying tiger" is an example of _________
    alliteration
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  • comparing two things using like or as
    simile
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  • The cloud was fluffy like cotton candy. This is an example of a _____________
    simile
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