Poetic Structure Definition Pairs
Authored by Anique Kruger
English
7th Grade
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1.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
A stanza with 4 lines
Cinquain
A stanza with 3 lines
Sestet
A stanza with 5 lines
Quatrain
A stanza with 2 lines
Tercet
A stanza with 6 lines
Couplet
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
2.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
A stanza with 7 lines
Octave
A stanza with 5 lines
Quatrain
A stanza with 4 lines
Sestet
A stanza with 8 lines
Septet
A stanza with 6 lines
Cinquain
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
3.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 3 pts
When a sentence overflows onto the next line in a poem
Caesura
When there is a pause in the line of a poem indicated by a comma, colon, semi-colon, dash or period
Enjambment
A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark
End-stopped line
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.10
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
4.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 3 pts
AA
Enveloped rhyme
ABAB
Rhyming couplet
ABBA
Alternate rhyme
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
5.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 3 pts
When a word inside a line rhymes with another word in the same line
End rhyme
Either vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical (ex. eyes, light; years, yours).
Internal rhyme
When the words at the end of two lines rhyme
Slant rhyme (Half rhyme)
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 3 pts
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines
Anaphora
When two lines follow the same grammatical form
Parallelism
A line repeated several times over the course of a poem - usually at the end of a stanza
Refrain
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.2.4
7.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 3 pts
The turning point in a poem
Asyndeton
When a sentence has too many conjunctions (I bought eggs and milk and bread)
Polysyndeton
When a sentence that should have conjunctions has none (I bought eggs, milk, bread)
Volta
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
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