Poetry
the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
What is the meter?
a group of lines within a poem
What is a stanza?
a comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
a four-line stanza
What is a quatrain?
a poem made of rhyming quatrains, the fourth line is repeated in each stanza
What is a kyrielle?
stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
What is a trochee?
repeated consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
giving human characteristics to an animal or object
What is personification?
a line that is repeated in a fixed pattern in poetry
What is a refrain?
a three-line poem with 17 syllabes (5-7-5)
What is a haiku?
repeated vowel sounds
What is assonance?
words with the same ending sound
What is rhyme?
when words sound like the noise it makes
What is onomatopoeia?
two-line rhyming stanza
What is a couplet?
a haiku with two additional 7-syllable lines at the end
What is a tanka?
a phrase or sentence on a single row
What is a line?
poetic meter that has five iambs
What is iambic pentameter?
describing something in an extremely exaggerated way
What is hyperbole?
What is 5-7-5?
poetry that does not rhyme and has no fixed pattern
What is free verse?
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
What is an iamb?
sonnet made up of three quatrains and a couplet; uses the rhyming scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
What is a Shakespearian Sonnet?
a comparison of two things not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
A Petrarchan Sonnet has two stanzas. How many lines are in each stanza?
What is 8 lines, then 6 lines?
a fourteen-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?