Poetry terms and vocabulary

What is a stanza?

• A group of lines in a poem

• A pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A poem of 14 lines with end rhymes

How many lines are there in a sonnet?

• 4

• 8

• 12

• 14

What is meter in poetry?

• A group of lines

• A pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• 14 lines with end rhymes

What is alliteration?

• A group of lines

• A pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• 14 lines with end rhymes

Which TWO of the following are an example of alliteration?

• She sells seashells by the seashore.

• He acts silly at times, but he was blessed with a brilliant brain.

• I might like to take a flight to an island in the sky.

• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

......................................... is poetry that does not follow any particular rhyme scheme or pattern.

• Free verse

• Formal verse

Free verse is poetry that follows a set structure and uses specific types of rhymes within the poem. It usually has a regular meter and rhyme scheme.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Formal verse

What are consonant sounds?

• A, E, I, O, U, And Y

• All except A, E, I, O, U, And Y

• s, d, j, k and f only

• th, ph, gh, sh, and ch

..............................is the repetition of identical sounds located at the ends of words. They can be either repeated consonant sounds or vowel sounds.

• Meter

• Sonnet

• Stanza

• Rhyme

There once was a man named Clark
Whose dog refused to bark
But when he gave the dog pie
It stopped being so shy
And is loud nonstop until dark

Which TWO sets of words are rhyming?

• Clark and bark

• shy and dark

• pie and shy

• bark and pie