Poetry Terms

the appearance of the words on the page

• line

• form

• stanza

• rhyme

a group of words together on one line of the poem

• line

• form

• stanza

• rhyme

a group of lines arranged together

• line

• form

• stanza

• rhyme

a two line stanza

• couplet

• triplet

• quatrain

• quintet

a four line stanza

• couplet

• triplet

• quatrain

• quintet

Poetic elements consist of which 2 categories

• rhythmic/sound devices

• figurative language

• chapters

• novels

Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.

• rhyme

• rhythm

• alliteration

• figurative language

true or false: a word always rhymes with itself

• true

• false

A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

• near rhyme

• end rhyme

A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

• near rhyme

• end rhyme