Poetry Vocabulary Quiz

Type of creative writing/literature that uses sounds and images to express feelings and ideas.

• Line

• Stanza

• Figurative Language

• Poetry

Special tools that the poet can use to create certain effects in the poem to convey and reinforce the meaning through sound

• Sound device

• Rhyme

• Poetry

• Line break

the end of a line of a poem and the beginning of a new line

• Stanza

• Metric

• Line break

• Line

a group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph

• Rhyme scheme

• Alliteration

• Stanza

• Line

single line of words in a poem

• Line break

• Line

• Stanza

• Poem

Type of creative writing/literature that uses sounds and images to express feelings and ideas.

• Narrative

• Poetry

• Drama

• Biography

The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables that create a rhythm or flow in the poem.

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

The final rhyme pattern in a poem.

Noted with lowercase letters, each different letter represents a different rhyme.

• Rhythm

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

Poems that follow patterns of lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas. When writing a closed form poem, the poet follows specific rules to fit a model

• Free verse

• Blank space

• Closed verse

• ABCABC Poem

Poetry that does not use any strict meter or rhyme scheme

• Closed verse

• Free verse

• Open verse

• Rhymed verse