LUOA 9th Grade Poetry Terms

What is a stanza?

• is a poem or portion of a poem with a certain number of lines

• the pattern in which a poem rhymes

• the first three lines of a poem

• two lines of verse

How are stanzas set apart?

• by spaces above and below

• they aren't set apart

• by spaces above

• none of these

What is a quatrain?

• stanza of four lines

• two lines of verse

• two words in the same meter

• two words joined by rhyme

What is a couplet?

• two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme which form a unit

• two or more words that contain matching sounds

• consists of words that rhyme within the same line

• pattern in which words of a poem rhyme

What is rhyme?

• two or more words that contain matching sounds

• consists of words that rhyme within the same line

• the pattern in which words of a poem rhyme

• distinguished by letters

What is internal rhyme?

• consists of words that rhyme within the same line

• pattern in which words of a poem rhyme

• distinguished by letters

• the cadence of poetry

What is rhyme scheme?

• the pattern in which words of a poem rhyme

• distinguished by letters- each letter is associated with a word's sound

• the cadence of poetry

• the beat of poetry

What is rhythm?

• the cadence or beat of poetry

• the number of words in a poem

• the number of letters in a poem

• the number of stanzas in a poem

How is rhythm created?

• by putting stress on some syllables but not others in a line

• by rhyming lots of words

• by rhyming lots of letters

• by rhyming every stanza

What is meter in poetry?

• the rhythmic pattern

• the distance of 1-20

• how long a song is

• the number of rhymes