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Types of poetry 1
Types of poetry 2
Types of poetry 3
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The repeating of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
The rhyming of words within one line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
100
A name for a line of poetry written in meter.
What is verse?
200
The repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
200
The use of a word whose sound makes you think of its meaning.
What is onamatopia?
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is ballad?
300
The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within words.
What is consonance?
300
A four-line stanza.
What is quatrain?
300
Unrhymed poetry with meter.
What is blank verse?
400
The rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is end rhyme?
400
A Poem 5 lines in length.
What is cinquain?
500
A unit of a meter.
What is foot?
500
A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
What is stanza?
500
Two lines of a verse that usually rhyme and state one complete idea.
What is couplet?