Poetry Terms Test

A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story without a specific form.

• poetry

• speaker

• poet

• form

The author of the poem; the person who writes the poem.

• speaker

• form

• poet

• poetry

The ___ of the poem is the narrator of the poem; the person who is telling the story.

• poetry

• stanza

• poet

• speaker

The appearance of the words on the page.

• form

• line

• stanza

• refrain

A group of words together on one ___ of the poem.

• meter

• stanza

• line

• similie

A group of lines arranged together, like a paragraph for poems.

• run-on line

• end-stopped line

• form

• stanza

A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.

• repetition

• refrain

• rhyme

• rhythm

Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.

• rhythm

• repetition

• rhyme

• run-on line

The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH.

• rhyme

• end-rhyme

• near rhyme

• internal rhyme

A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line.

• rhyme

• near rhyme

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme