Poetry Terms Review

The repetition of consonance sounds in the middle of words.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Consonance

A stanza in a poem is similar to a _____ in a story.

• Sentence

• Body

• Paragraph

• Conclusion

A reference to a certain person, place, or event from the past. . .

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

A humorous poem that is five lines long and includes the set rhyme scheme of AABBA.

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Rhyming Poem

• Love Poem

Visually descriptive language. . .

• The five senses

• Imagery

• Imagination

• Illusions

Words that have the same end sound, but are not spelled the same at the end of the words.

• End Rhyme

• Half Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Empty Rhyme

The measurement of rhythm in poems, measured by the number of feet in one line of poetry.

• Foot

• Meter

• Diagram

• Stressed

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• Meter

• Foot

• Rhyming

• Rhythm

The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of poetry

• Rhyme Scheme

• Rhyming

• End Rhyme

• Line

An object used to stand for something else

• Allusion

• Symbolism

• Imagery

• Confusing