Definitions
Kinds of Stanzas
Sound Effects
Different types of Rhyme
Language in Poetry
100
A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
What is Poetry
100
a two line stanza
What is Couplet
100
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
What is Rhythm
100
Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Free Verse Poetry
100
Words that imitate the sound they are naming
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
200
The poet is the author of the poem
What is POET
200
a four line stanza
What is Quatrain
200
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is Meter
200
Written in lines of iambic pentameter, but does NOT use end rhyme.
What is Blank Verse Poetry
200
Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
What is ALLITERATION
300
the appearance of the words on the page
What is FORM
300
a six line stanza
What is Sestet (Sextet)
300
are determined by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is TYPES OF FEET
300
Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds
What is RHYME
300
A comparison of two things using “like, as, than,” or “resembles.”
What is SIMILE
400
a group of lines arranged together – similar to a paragraph
What is STANZA
400
an eight line stanza
What is Octave
400
unit of meter
What is FOOT
400
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
What is END RHYME
400
A direct comparison of two unlike things
What is METAHOR
500
a group of words together on one line of the poem…not “sentence”
What is LINE
500
a seven line stanza
What is Septet
500
four feet on a line
What is tetrameter
500
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
What is INTERNAL RHYME
500
A metaphor that goes several lines or possible the entire length of a work.
What is EXTENDED METAPHOR
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