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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Rhythm

A pattern of rhymes

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Rhyme Scheme

A word that sounds like what it means

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Onomatopoeia

The rhythm established by a poem

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Meter

Like paragraphs in prose writing

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Stanza

A rhythmic unit

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Foot

A 3 line poem with a total of 17 syllables

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Haiku

A comparison between two things using “like” or “as”

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Simile

The repetition of the ending sounds of words

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Rhyme

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration

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Hyperbole

The assignment of human qualities to something that

is not human

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Personification

A poem whose shape visually reflects what the

poem is saying

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Concrete Poem

A word or phrase used several times

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Repetition

A foot with two unaccented syllables followed by a

stressed syllable

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Anapest

A comparison between two things that does not use the

words “like” or “as”

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Metaphor

A foot with two syllables, accent on the last

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Iamb

Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of

two or more words

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Alliteration

The following lines are an example of this type of figurative language:

LinesIn a new notebookRun, even and fine,Like telephone wiresAcross a snowy landscape

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Simile

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Personification

The following lines are an example of this type of figurative language:

Do skyscrapers ever grow tiredOf holding themselves up high?Do they ever shiver on frosty nightsWith their tops against the sky?

The following lines are an example of this type of figurative language:

Morning is A new sheet of paperFor you to write on.

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Metaphor

The following line contains four of this type of feet:

Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house.

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Anapest

What sound device is used in the following line:

“Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.”

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Assonance

What type of poem is this:

Half mocking the seathe gulls dip within reach of

each exploding wave

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Haiku

What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza:

The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

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ABAB

What sound device is used below?

Betty Botter had some butter,"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.If I bake this bitter butter,it would make my batter bitter.But a bit of better butter--that would make my batter better."

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Alliteration

“I need a pickup truck to carry all my books home!” is

an example of this form of speech.

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Hyperbole

Poems that use the following words are using

this sound device:

bang, boom, creak, crash, honk, hiss

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Onomatopoeia

What type of poem is this:

There was once a young fellow of WallWho grew up so amazingly tallThat his friends dug a pitWhere he’s happily sitWhen he wished to converse with them all.

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Limerick

What sound device is used in the following poem:

Sweet Marie, she loves just me(She also loves Maurice McGhee).No she don’t she loves just me(She also loves Louise Dupree).No she don’t she loves just me(She also loves the willow three).No she don’t she loves just me!(Poor, poor fool, why can’t you seeShe can love others and still love thee.)

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Repetition

What type of poem is this:I have a Band-Aid on my finger,One on my knee, and one on my nose,One on my heel, and two on my shoulder,Three on my elbow, and nine on my toes.Two on my wrist, and one on my ankle,One on my chin, and one on my thigh,Four on my belly, and five on my bottom,One on my forehead, and one on my eye.One on my neck, and in case I might need ‘emI have a box full of thirty-five more.But oh! I do think it’s sort of a pityI don’t have a cut or a sore!

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List or Inventory Poem

What two things are thoughts being compared to in this poem?

Isn’t it strange some people makeYou feel so tired inside,

Your thoughts begin to shrivel upLike leaves all brown and dried!

But when you’re with some other ones,It’s stranger still to find

Your thoughts as thick as firefliesAll shiny in your mind!

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Dried up leaves and fireflies