TERM - DEFINITION
POETRY TYPE
ID the Term by Example
100

When two words are used AS END RHYMES but do NOT technically rhyme exactly -- often heard in lyrics of songs

OFF/NEAR/SLANT Rhyme

100

(NAME THE TYPE OF POETRY THIS IS):

A blowing zephyr

Tickles this my tender heart

Peace descends softly

HAIKU

100

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

ALLITERATION

200

The BEAT created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables when poetry is read aloud

RHYTHM

200

NAME THE TYPE:

RAVENS

ON MY BACK FENCE

KNOCKING HARD ON THE WOOD

WAKENING EVEN RESTING SOULS

BE GONE!

CINQUAIN

200

The term for the BOLDED things below:

Then once again I was asked to send 

(Do NOT use "internal rhyme")

ASSONANCE

300

Repetition of the INITIAL CONSONANT sounds of two or more words in the same line of poetry (think most tongue-twisters)

ALLITERATION

300

Name the Type:

After the crash of sound

Fear grasped my spirit -

Ruining what had been a moment

Awash in joy -

Instantly left helpless -

Dealing with a single emotion.

ACROSTIC

300

Name the term associated with the BOLD word below:

The sound of the swish was heard throughout the gym

(NOT Alliteration)

Onomatopoeia

400

The term for showing the PLAN of end rhyme used in a poem that has a regular pattern of end rhyme

RHYME SCHEME

400

What type of poem tells a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end

NARRATIVE

400

What type of RHYME is bolded below:

My fat little cat sat in his pile of hair


(Do NOT say "assonance")

INTERNAL RHYME

500

A group of lines that acts as a unit in a poem and is separated from other groups of lines by a blank line

STANZA

500

What type of poetry has NO REGULAR RHYTHM and NO REGULAR RHYME

FREE VERSE

500

ID the RHYME SCHEME:

Play

Around

Quiet

Riot

No sound

Day

A-B-C-C-B-A

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