Poetry Terms #1

A ______ is a question, usually humorous, to be solved.

• rhythm

• riddle

• idiom

_______ are pauses that divide a poem into lines, allows for the poem to be read more smoothly

• line breaks

• stanza

• meter

A group of lines that form a verse (like a paragraph)

• meter

• rhyme

• stanza

the person telling a story (communicating a message in a poem)

• poet

• narrator

• point of view

the rhythmic structure in poetry (made up of stressed and unstressed syllables)

• meter

• rhyme

• stanza

words that have the same or similar ending sounds.

• internal rhyme

• repetition

• rhyme

a rhyme within the same line of poetry

• rhythm

• internal rhyme

• repetition

the pattern of rhyming lines in poetry (ex: AABB, ABAB)

• rhyme

• internal rhyme

• rhyme scheme

  (rhyming pattern)

lines or words are repeated in a poem

• repetition

• meter

• rhyming pattern

a central or universal idea (expresses truth about human behavior)

**usually the "moral" or lesson learned**

• meter

• poet

• theme