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Poetry, Part 1 Test Review
Form, Sound Devices, and Repetition
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Literature
7th Grade
02/02/2006

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Term
Robert Frost said "poems begin in delight and end in ???"
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wisdom
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??? refers to the way writing is organized or looks on the page
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form
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??? is the sensory picture created in the reader's mind
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image
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A group of lines in poetry is called a ???
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stanza
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What we call lines that end with punctuation.
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end stopped lines
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What we call lines that do not have any punctuation at the end.
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run on lines
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A group of two rhyming lines in a poem.
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couplet
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A group of four lines in a poem.
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quatrain
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What we call a poem written in the shape of its subject.
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concrete or shaped
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What we call words whose endings sound exactly alike.
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pure rhyme
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What we call words that look like they should sound alike.
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slant rhymes
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What we call two sound alike words in the same line of poetry.
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internal rhyme
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The pattern of rhymes in a stanza; abba for example.
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rhyme scheme
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Repeating the beginning sounds of several different words that are close to one another in a poem.
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alliteration
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Repeating vowel sounds in several random places in close by words.
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assonance
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What sound device in this line: "A python I should not advise."
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assonance -- the i's
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What sound device in this line: "It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of bird's cries.
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alliteration -- the w's
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Repeating consonants in random places in several close by words.
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consonance
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What sound device in this line:
"I had an aunt in Yucatan."
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consonance -- the n's
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A line or stanza repeated at regular places throughout a poem.
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refrain
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A repeated line where part of the line stays exactly the same and the other part changes each time.
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incremental repetition
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"Repetition" means ???
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to repeat elements or words in a poem
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Repeating similar elements in similar positions throughout a poem.
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parallel repetition
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Repeating the last word of one line as the first word of the next line of a poem.
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anadiplosis
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What do these lines illustrate?:

The team is full of cheer.
Cheer them to victory today.
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anadiplosis
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What do these lines illustrate:

Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon in front of them,
Rode the six hundred.
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incremental repetition
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??? MacLeish said "A poem should not mean, but ???."
Definition
Archibald --- "be."
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