Spring Poetry Vocabulary

Words whose final syllables (from the last stressed syllable) have the exact same sound

• complete rhyme

• allusion

• assonance

• denotation

A single line of poetry

• line
• meter
• verse
• rhythm

A group of lines in a poem; a verse, like a paragraph in a book - marked by skipping a line

• stanza
• ballad
• couplet
• line

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

The repetition of vowel sounds in a group of words

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• connotation

A pair of lines in a poem that contain end rhymes

• free verse poem

• quatrain

• ballad

• couplet

Usually a stanza or poem of 4 lines

• meter
• rhyme scheme
• quatrain
• simile

The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, written a letters (ABAB)

• tone

• diction

• refrain

• rhyme scheme

The rain in Spain lies mainly on the plane is an example of

• assonance
• repetition
• consonance
• diction

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Phrases or lines repeated several times in a poem.

• poetry

• quatrain

• refrain

• simile

Which type of poem tells a story and has characters, a setting and a plot?

• Haiku

• Rhyming

• Narrative

• Acrostic