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Poetry Types
Time to Rhyme
Poetic Structure
Foot/Meter
Figurative Language
100
A narrative poem that tells a story usually in a straightforward way.
What is a ballad?
100
Rhyming words within a line rather than at the end of lines.
What is internal rhyme?
100
The blocks of lines into which a poem is divided.
What is a stanza?
100
A group of syllables forming a unit of verse - the basic unit of meter.
What is a foot?
100
A comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; uses the words 'like' or 'as' in this comparison
What is a simile?
200
A meditative poem, usually sad and reflective in nature.
What is an elegy?
200
Two consecutive lines of verse that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
200
The repetition of similar vowel sounds
What is assonance?
200
The most common metrical foot in English poetry, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
200
A comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; it actually states that one thing is the other
What is a metaphor?
300
A long narrative poem, written in an elevated style and usually dealing with a heroic theme or story
What is an epic?
300
The pattern of the rhymes in a poem.
What is the rhyme scheme?
300
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in two or more words in which the vowel sounds are different
What is consonance?
300
The two types of poetry that use iambic pentameter.
What are blank verse and sonnets?
300
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
400
A poem expressing intense grief.
What is lament?
400
A stanza of four lines which can have various rhyme schemes
What is a quatrain?
400
A verse line with a pause or a stop at the end of it
What is end stopping?
400
The 'movement' of the poem as created through the meter and the way that language is stressed within the poem.
What is rhythm?
400
A reference to a well-known event, person, place, or work of literature.
What is an allusion?
500
A fourteen-line poem, usually with ten syllables in each line
What is a sonnet?
500
Corresponding sounds in words, usually at the end of each line but not always.
What is rhyme?
500
Repetition throughout a poem of a phrase, line, or series of lines, as in the 'chorus' of a song.
What is a refrain?
500
A line of verse containing five feet.
What is pentameter?
500
The types of figurative language that give human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is anthropomorphism and personification?