What do you hear?
This is the restating of the same words or phrases.
What is Repetition?
These stanzas have 4 lines.
What are quatrains?
The following is an example of this type of poem:
Blow dandelions /
And watch a thousand wishes /
Scatter in the wind
What is a Haiku?
This is the feeling of the poem or story.
What is Mood?
These poems are cinquains that follow an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What are Limericks?
This is the repetition of sounds at the end of words.
What is Rhyme?
These stanzas have 2 lines.
What are couplets?
The following is an example of this type of poem:
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'
What is a Limerick?
These are divisional lines in poetry.
What are Stanzas?
These poems are tercets that follow a 5 / 7 / 5 syllable structure.
What are Haikus?
This is the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words.
What is Alliteration?
These stanzas have 5 lines.
What are cinquains?
The following is an example of this type of stanza:
Hickory Dickory Dock /
The mouse ran up the clock
What is a couplet?
This is the author's message.
What is Theme?
This poetry style is not restricted by a specific rhyme scheme.
What is Free Verse?
This is the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words.
What is Consonance?
What are octets?
The following poem uses this type of rhyme scheme:
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
What is ABCCBA?
This is a pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is a Rhyme Scheme?
These poems are used to create images out of words.
What are Concrete Poems?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words.
What is Assonance?
These stanzas have 10 lines.
What are decimas?
The following is a quatrain from this type of poem:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
What is a Sonnet?
These are how poets convey meaning and mood.
What are Sound Devices?
These poems use 3 quatrains and 1 couplet and are typically written in iambic pentameter.
What are Sonnets?