Poetry

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  1. 2. A type of literary work that attempts to stir the reader's feelings and emotions.
  2. 6. A poem that is four lines and usually has the aabb or abab rhyming scheme.
  3. 8. Extreme exaggeration.
  4. 11. Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
  5. 12. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem.
  6. 14. A poem in which the first letter of each line is used to relate to the topic word.
  7. 15. One example of a rhyme scheme in which the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme and the 2nd and 4th lines rhyme.
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  1. 1. A poem that is two rhyming lines with the same number of syllables.
  2. 3. A unit of pronunciation.
  3. 4. A poem that is created from a piece of writing that was not poetry. Pieces are taken from text and arranged into a poem.
  4. 5. Using like or as to compare two things.
  5. 7. A poem that is written in the shape of the poem's subject or theme.
  6. 9. A poem that is 17 syllables long and is written in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
  7. 10. A 5-line poem that consists of a subject, two describing words, three action words, a four word phrase, and one word that refers back to the subject.
  8. 13. A set of lines that are grouped together in a poem.
  9. 16. One example of a rhyme scheme in which the 1st and 4th lines rhyme and the 2nd and 3rd lines rhyme.