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Poetry is the use of words to express ideas and feelings. A poet is the person who writes poetry. A stanza is a group of lines in a poem that have the same idea. Personification gives a non-human thing human qualities. A metaphor compares two unlike things without using like or as. A simile compares two things using like or as. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines. Repetition involves saying the same thing again. A contrast shows opposites. Alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds. Assonance repeats similar vowel sounds. Consonance repeats similar consonant sounds.

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Poetry 1

Poetry is the use of words to express ideas and feelings. A poet is the person who writes poetry. A stanza is a group of lines in a poem that have the same idea. Personification gives a non-human thing human qualities. A metaphor compares two unlike things without using like or as. A simile compares two things using like or as. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines. Repetition involves saying the same thing again. A contrast shows opposites. Alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds. Assonance repeats similar vowel sounds. Consonance repeats similar consonant sounds.

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1. What is a poetry ?

Using words to express feelings or ideas .

2. What is a poet ?
The person who writes poetry.

3. What is a stanza ?
The group of lines in the poem that have the same idea.

4. What is a personification ?
When you give something an image of a person.
EX: "Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

5. What is a metaphor ?
When you give something an image of another thing.
EX: "tiger tiger burning bright"

6. What is a simile ?
When you give a person an image of something.
EX: "I wander'd lonely as a cloud"

7. What is a rhyme scheme ?


The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza. Rhyme schemes can change line by
line

8. What is a repetition ?
The act of saying the same thing again.

9. What is a contrast ? What is an antithesis ?


The opposite of something.
EX: "That floats on high o'er vales and hills …."
"Beside the lake, beneath the trees,"

10. What is an alliteration ?


It is the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
EX: "Beside the lake, beneath the trees,"

11. What is an assonance ?


It is the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences.
EX: "A host, of golden daffodils;"

12. What is a consonance ?


It is the repetition of the same or similar consonantl sounds within words, phrases, or sentences.
EX: "But Winter and rough Weather “

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