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Poetry Terms

Authored by Nichole Pennington

English

12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Poetry Terms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The basic unit of a poem, this is several lines of poetry grouped together, with white space above and below.

Concrete

Quatrain

Stanza

Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The rhythmic structure of the poem--the way it sounds when read aloud.

Tempo

Meter

Soliloquy

Chorus

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Two lines of poetry that stand alone or apart from the rest of the poem. Often these two lines will rhyme and have the same meter, but not always.

Couplet

Twins

Dynamic duo

Besties

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When an object or animal is given human qualities.

Humanify

Highlighting

Peopling

Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A poem that has several words that start with the same consonant and are placed close together. For example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Obliteration

Alliteration

Cremation

Devastation

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A word that sounds like what it represents. Words like "meow," "oink," "pop," or "click."

Soundsplosion

Plinkytalk

Onomatopoeia

Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A poem that has 14 lines, and each line must have exactly 10 syllables and be written in iambic pentameter. In a typical Shakespearean one of these, the last couplet (two lines) of the poem rhymes.

Pantoum

Bonnet

Sonnet

Villanelle

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

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