Poetry Review- terms & meanings

Question 1

The theme of "Dump" was...

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"We are part of a toxic cycle of consuming and discarding"

Question 2

in a traditional poem, the rhyme scheme...

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can be the same for each stanza OR different

Question 3

themes should...

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should apply to the story/poem/characters AND the world/society/life

Question 4

sounds of words and rhythms within lines of free verse

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matter

Question 5

"The acrid smell of trash/ Arises like perfume"

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irony

Question 6

irony is...

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saying the opposite of what is meant

Question 7

the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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meter

Question 8

each ________ includes one stressed syllable

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foot, unit of meter

Question 9

The theme of "How Things Work" was...

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"Life is unfortunately a chain of events linked by money"

Question 10

has natural rhythms

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free verse

Question 11

because a meter following a rigid pattern can sound singsongy, like a nursery rhyme...

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poets often choose to work more loosely with meter

Question 12

free verse poetry

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has natural rhythms, can sound conversational like natural speech

Question 13

divided into stanzas w/ the same # of lines & a rhyme scheme

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fixed form, traditional form

Question 14

in free verse poetry, the poet...

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made choices about where to break & punctuate lines & words/phrases

Question 15

poets might give clues about the poem's theme through...

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the tone, the speaker's attitude toward the subject

Question 16

a poem's form is closely linked to its meaning, which...

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makes the poem's form important to its message

Question 17

poetic devices that define forms of poetry

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rhyme, rhythm, meter

Question 18

group of lines in a poem similar to a paragraph

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stanza

Question 19

a rhyme scheme

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can be the same OR different for each stanza, abab, aabaab, abcabc, is noted by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each line in a stanza, is a pattern of end rhymes

Question 20

a poem's structure, including the arrangement of words and lines

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form

Question 21

a lesson about life or human nature that the poet shares with the reader

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theme

Poetry Review- terms & meanings

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Poetry Review- terms & meanings

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