Poetry Practice

the repetition of initial consonant sounds

• assonance

• alliteration

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the ends of words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• connotation

the repetition of vowel sounds

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• connotation

the genre of literature in which lines and stanzas are the building blocks

• poetry

• prose

• drama

• fiction

dialogue and stage directions are the building blocks of what genre

• poetry

• prose

• drama

• tragedy

What genre are these: stories, essays, newspaper articles, novels, biographies, autobiographies...

• poetry

• prose

• drama

• fiction

a grouping of lines in a poem; similar to a paragraph in prose

• line

• stanza

• volta

• stigma

when two or more words in the same line rhyme

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• line rhyme

• slant rhyme

A rhyme scheme is based on what?

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• near rhyme

• close rhyme

a poem that is written in iambic pentameter and typically does not have a rhyme scheme

• free verse

• structured poem

• blank verse

• sonnet