Poetry Terminology

Two lines of poetry 

• Stanza
• Quatrain
• Couplet
• Iambic pentameter

Four lines of poetry 

• Couplet
• Quatrain
• Stanza
• Metaphor

The "paragraphs" of poetry

• Stanza
• Rhyme scheme
• Sonnet
• Quatrain

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

• Iambic pentameter
• Rhyme scheme
• Alliteration
• Rhythm

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

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

• Rhyme scheme
• Alliteration
• Iambic pentameter
• Assonance

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

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

• Ode
• Elegy
• Epic
• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

A poem that is meant to tell a story.

• Narrative
• Ode
• Elegy
• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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

• Elegy
• Ode
• Sonnet
• Free verse