Poetry Vocab Practice

Poetry is...

• a group of lines in a poem.

• the physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition.

• a repition of similar sounding words and is used primarily at the end of lines in poems or songs.

• an ancient form of writing that is made up of lines and stanzas.

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A stanza is similar to a paragraph because it refers to...

• a group of lines.

• an ancient form of writing.

• a type of poem with 14 lines.

• a type of figurative language.

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Quatrains are a series of four lines that rhyme and can be one section within a poem, or can be on its own poem.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.4

A couplet is...

• a poem with 5 stanzas of 4 lines each.

• a repetition of similar sounding words.

• a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

• a pair of rhyming lines in a row, usually the same length.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Which line uses a simile to express the mood?

• "Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

• "That lightning brilliant as a sword"

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A sonnet is a type of poem that can be broken down in 4 sections that has a strict rhyme scheme. How many lines does it contain?

• 4

• 12

• 14

• 17

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

A metaphor is a type of...

• figurative language that compares two things using "like" or "as".

• figurative language that directly compares two things.

• poem with 4 lines.

• poem with 14 lines.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

Poetic form is...

• the beat or the flow of a poem that is made up of beat and repetition.

• a repetition of similar sounding words and is used primarily at the end of lines in poems and songs.

• the physical structure of the poem.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Rhythm is...

• the beat or flow of a poem that is made up of beat and repitition.

• a repetition of similar sounding words and is used primarily at the end of lines in poems and song.

• the physical structure of the poem.

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Rhyme is...

• the beat or the flow of a poem that is made up of beat and repitition.

• a repetition of similar sounding words and is used primarily at the end of lines in poems and songs

• the physical structure of the poem.

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10