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.

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.

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

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.

Which line uses a simile to express the mood?

• "Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

• "That lightning brilliant as a sword"

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

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.

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.

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.

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.