Poetry Terms Review

A stanza with four lines is called a:

• couplet
• sestet
• quatrain

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The structure of the words on the page; their appearance

• stanza
• rhythm
• form

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a group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph

• stanza
• rhyme scheme
• form

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The pattern of rhymes in the words or syllables that end the lines of each stanza

• stanza
• rhyme scheme
• form

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A stanza with two lines is called a:

• couplet
• quatrain
• quintet

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When words at the end of two different lines rhyme

• End rhyme
• Near rhyme
• Rhyme scheme

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NEAR RHYME is when two words:

• share either the same vowel or consonant sound
• share both the same vowel and consonant sound
• share two of the same sounds and one different sound

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A short poem written in first person point of view they conveys an emotion is a:

• Narrative
• Lyric
• Haiku

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A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines is called a:

• Ballad
• Lyric
• Limerick

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A short, humorous five line poem with a set rhyme and syllable scheme is a:

• Narrative
• Haiku
• Limerick

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