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1. What does a poem always do?

rhymes

uses imaginative language

uses clear, simple language to get the facts across

2. Why did people used to use poems to tell stories?

a poem is harder to remember than a story

rhymes and the rhythm make poems easy to remember

a poem is much longer than a story

3. What is Haiku?

a type of small fish found in the Arctic ocean

a form of Russian poetry

a form of Japanese poetry

4. A type of poetry where the words are written to form a particular shape is called what?

concrete poetry

plastic poetry

cake poetry

5. What is poetry that uses made-up words to describe things, or just to make nice sounds called?

fantabulous poetry

inside-out poetry

nonsense poetry

6. What is a rhyme?

when two words sound alike

when two words start with the same letter

a type of Chinese poetry

7. What is alliteration?

another word for a tongue-twister

a poem that's really hard to read

two words together that start with the same sound

8. When you compare one thing to another you are using a what?

smile

simile

metaphor

9. What is a metaphor?

to describe something as if it were something else

four metas in a row

two words that rhyme and mean the same thing

10. What is giving human feelings and actions to objects known as?

simplification

magnification

personification

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