Poetry Terms

What is Blank Verse

• When you leave a line blank in a poem

• A line in a poem that does not rhyme

• A poem that only rhymes once

• A poem that rhymes

How many lines is a Couplet

• 7

• 9

• 2

• 27

The word "Mockingbird" is an example of what pattern

• spondaic

• trochaic

• Iambic

• Dactyle

How many syllables are in each line of a Sonnet

• 10

• 8

• 12

• 14

"Sally saw a starfish singing by the sea" is an example of

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• personification

• Caesura

Which is an example of Rhyme

• I saw her go inside

  She was running from a dog

• I saw her run and hide

  she was under the tree

• I saw her on the swing

  her hair dangling in the wind

• I saw her at the store

  she wasn't crying any more

Define Assonance

• giving an inanimate object lifelike qualities

• A close repetition of vowel sounds

• a line consisting of 11 syllables

• Repeating lines in the poem

A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains

• Stanza

• Simile

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Pentameter

"I'm so tired I could sleep a year" is an example of

• Metaphor

• personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Define Verse

• A rhythmic measure of time

• A unit of poetry, like a line or a stanza

• Poetry that does not have a pattern

• A reference to a person