Poetry Vocabulary 1
Two or more words which match in the same last sound.
What is rhyme?
A type of literature that express ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form.
What is poetry?
How many stanzas are in this poem?
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Will the Summer come again?
Rain on houses, on the street,
Wetting all the people's feet,
Though they run with might and main.
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.
Will the Winter never go?
What do beggar children do
With no fire to cuddle to,
P'rhaps with nowhere warm to go?
Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.
Hail and ice, and ice and hail,
Water frozen in the pail.
See the robins, brown and red,
They are waiting to be fed.
Poor dears, battling in the gale!
Hail and ice, and ice and hail.
What is 3?
The beat of poetry.
What is rhythm?
The author of a poem
What is poet?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem:
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Will the Summer come again?
Rain on houses, on the street,
Wetting all the people's feet,
Though they run with might and main.
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
What is AABBAA?
How many lines does this stanza have?
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Will the Summer come again?
Rain on houses, on the street,
Wetting all the people's feet,
Though they run with might and main.
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
What is 6?
A rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter or rhythm?
A group of lines in a poem
What is stanza?
Marking rhyming lines of the poem with a letter of the alphabet.
What is rhyme scheme?
A line of poetry
what is verse
Like a paragraph but in a poem
What is a stanza?
Occurs when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem.
What is repetition?
The use of the same word, phrase, or line multiple times
What is repetition?
Oodles of Noodles
I love noodles. Give me oodles.
Make a mound up to the sun.
Noodles are my favorite foodles.
I eat noodles by the ton.
What words rhyme?
What is sun, ton or oodles, foodles?
The message that the writer or artist wants the reader to know.
What is theme?
The place where the poet chooses to end a line, often used to indicate rhythm or to represent meaning.
What is a line break?
The speaker in a poem; the person behind the words that speaks out to the audience.
What is voice?
A poem that has no formal structure, no rhythm, and no rhyme
What is free verse?
The emotion in the poem created by the poet. Can be happy, angry, silly, sad, excited, fearful or thoughtful.
What is a mood?
A literary device where words mimic the actual sounds we hear....Splish, Splash, Boom, Whoosh!
What is onomatopoeia?