Poetry Terminology quiz

Two lines of poetry 

• Stanza
• Quatrain
• Couplet
• Iambic pentameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Four lines of poetry 

• Couplet
• Quatrain
• Stanza
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

The "paragraphs" of poetry

• Stanza
• Rhyme scheme
• Sonnet
• Quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

The pattern of rhyming in a poem. Mark it up using letters of the alphabet

• Iambic pentameter
• Rhyme scheme
• Alliteration
• Rhythm

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme in the following lines from "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe?

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;

• ABABC
• AABBB
• ABABA
• AAABB

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

Five "feet" or ten syllables. Always sound like your heartbeat. William Shakespeare often wrote in this style.

• Rhyme scheme
• Alliteration
• Iambic pentameter
• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

A poem that ALWAYS has 14 lines and follows a particular, formal rhyme scheme. The most formal of all poetry.

• Sonnet
• Free verse
• Blank verse
• Epic

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A really, really, really long poem written about a serious topic or important person.

• Ode
• Elegy
• Epic
• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

A poem that is meant to tell a story.

• Narrative
• Ode
• Elegy
• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

A serious poem written in honor of someone or some thing.

• Elegy
• Ode
• Sonnet
• Free verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10