Poetry Vocabulary

Front

What are words that imitate sounds (ex: Crash! Buzz! Roar!)

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Onomatopoeia

Front

What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds that creates a rhythm (ex: hickory dickory dock, the mouse went up the clock)?

Back

Meter

Front

What do we call similarity of ending sounds in words (ex: The cat sat on the hat.)?

Back

Rhyme

Front

What is repetition of beginning consonant sounds (ex: the bubbling babbling brook)?

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Alliteration

Front

What do we call a grouping of two or more lines?

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Stanza

Front

What is called when a line of poetry is broken and a new line begins?

Back

Line Break

Front

What do we call repeating sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas?

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Repetition

Front

What is the empty part of the page surrounding the words in a poem called?

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White Space

Front

What do we call the descriptive language that engages the five senses (think sensory details)?

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Imagery

Front

In this short audio clip of the poem called "The Scientist and the Bumblebee", I can hear the poet using Options: onomatopoeia, buzzing

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onomatopoeia, buzzing