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Poetic Structure Definition Pairs

Authored by Anique Kruger

English

7th Grade

CCSS covered

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Poetic Structure Definition Pairs
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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Match the following

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

Match the following

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

Match the following

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

Match the following

AA

Enveloped rhyme

ABAB

Rhyming couplet

ABBA

Alternate rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

5.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 3 pts

Match the following

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

Match the following

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

Match the following

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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