Poetry Terms Test

The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Metrical language; the opposite of prose.

• Syntax

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes.

• Diction

• Approximate rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme) is repeated throughout a poem.

• Stanza

• Paragraph

• Free Verse

• Blank Verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words.

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Free Verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form.

• Ballad

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas.

• Rhyme Scheme

• Rhyme

• Caesura

• Refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words.

• Verse

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form.

• Foot

• Refrain

• Repetition

• Iamb

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Unrhymed iambic pentameter.

• Prose

• Blank Verse

• Free Verse

• Ode

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9