Year 9 - Term 3 - Week 1 - Poetry Vocabulary

The type of poem; for example haiku, acrostic or sonnet.

• form

• language

• structure

Like a paragraph but in a poem.

• Stanza

• Rhyme Scheme

• Juxtaposition

• Quatrain

The pattern of rhyming words in a poem.

• Rhyme scheme

• Stanza

• Quatrain

• Chronology

A stanza with exactly 4 lines

• Quatrain

• Stanza

• Rhyme Scheme

• Juxtaposition

A rhyming pair of lines in a poem, usually the same length.

• Rhyming couplet

• Stanza

• Quatrain

• Transition

The order and organisation of a poem. How it begins, develops and ends.

• Structure

• Form

• Language

How a poem moves and changes from beginning to end.

• Transitions

• Stanza

• Devices

• Punctuation

When a poem moves on to the next line.

• Line break

• Stanza

• Rhyme Scheme

• Metre

Full stops, commas, exclamation marks and question marks help to organise a poem but also they affect how it is read aloud.

• True

• False

The words, phrases and devices used in a poem.

• Language

• Form

• Structure