Poetry Vocabulary TEST

A rhythm in verse or music

• Stanza

• Meter

• Rhyme Scheme

Similarity in final sounds of two or more lines of verse

• Rhyme

• Metaphor

• Couplet

A division of a poem consisting of a series or lines arranged in a pattern of meter and rhyme.

• Couplet

• Onomatopoeia

• Stanza

The repeating of a sound at the beginning of two or more words in a poem

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Haiku

Comparing two different things without using "like" or "as"

• Assonance

• Cinquain

• Metaphor

A five line poem

• Couplet

• Cinquain

• Diamonte

A two-line poem

• Quatrain

• Clarihew

• Couplet

Writing chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, rhythm, and sound

• Poetry

• Ballad

• Song Lyrics

Giving human qualities to non-human things or objects

• Assonance

• Personification

• Alliteration

The use of words to create sounds, i.e. Snap, Pop, Bang!

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification