STAAR Vocabulary #5

poem that tells a story

• Narrative

• Free Verse

• Lyrical

• Stanza

poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet, 

they have rhyme and rhythm

• Narrative

• Free Verse

• Lyrical

• Stanza

poem without rhyme or rhythm and usually not written in 

stanzas

• Narrative

• Free Verse

• Lyrical

• Stanza

 a division of a poem where lines are arranged together and 

usually repeat patterns, sounds, rhythm, or rhyme

• Narrative

• Free Verse

• Lyrical

• Stanza

​  ​ ​ (a)   - a word, sound, or pattern that occurs over and over

• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

​  ​ ​ (a)   - a repeating of stressed and unstressed sounds or syllables

• Rhythm
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition

​  ​ ​ ​ ​ (a)   - repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Rhythm

​​ (a)   - a word that imitates a noise or action

• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Alliteration

Match the following

• Stanzas

• a division of a poem where lines are arranged together and 

  usually repeat patterns, sounds, rhythm, or rhyme

• Quatrain

• a poem with stanzas of four (4) lines

• Couplet

•  a poem with stanzas of two (2) lines

Match the following

• –y

•  related to, state of, quality of

• bio

• state of

•  –graph

• study of

• –ship

• write, writing

• –ology

• life