Poetry Vocabulary

What part of a poem do we look at to determine the rhyme scheme?

• The start word of a poetic line

• the end word of the last line in each stanza

• the end word of each line in the poem

• none of the options

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the term for a four-line stanza?

• Monometer

• Couplet

• Spenserian

• Quatrain

Click all that apply:

• ABBA

• Couplet

• ABCD *C repeating

• Monastic

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which term refers to a nonameter?

• 9 feet in a line

• 9 stanzas total

• 9 lines in a stanza

• this is not a term we learned

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the term for a line with 3 feet?

• Iambic

• Tetrameter

• Monometer

• Trimeter

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is this poem's rhyme scheme?

• AABCC

• ABBCC

• ABCC

• no rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is the definition for stanza?

• Poetic foot

• Poetic paragraph

• Poetic line

• A poem with 7 lines total

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the name of a line that follows the unstressed/stressed pattern?

• dactyl

• Iambic

• Anapestic

• Trochee

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does sestet mean?

• 7 syllables

• 6 feet

• 7 line stanza

• 6 line stanza

Which term refers to a line with 5 feet?

• Hexameter

• Tetrameter

• Pentameter

• Free Form