Poetry Vocabulary Quiz

Meter is ________.

• using an exaggeration.

• a formal division of lines in a poem.

• how rhythm is measured

  
  

• One unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable; also known as a "foot"

  
  

A formal division of lines in a poem

• Couplet

• Stanza

• Quatrain

• Iambic Pentameter

Using exaggeration

Ex: It took me a lifetime to complete my homework.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Rhythm is _______.

• a regular pattern of rhyming words.

• the art of words that have rhythm, flow, and repetition.

• the repetition of vowel sounds.

• the repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Words that are not literal but are used to denote thought

• Figurative Language

• Simile

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Giving humanm qualities to nonhuman objects

Ex: The flowers danced in the wind.

• Imagery

• Anaphora

• Personification

• Hyperbole

One unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable; also known as a "foot"

• iamb

• rhythm

• meter

• rhyme scheme

The art of words that have rhythm, flow, and repetition

• Metaphor

• Poetry

• Allusion

• Rhyme Scheme

The repeated pattern of movement or sound

EX: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; A

Coral is far more red than her lips' red; B

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; A

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. B

• Rhythm

• Rhyme Scheme

• Assonance

• Allusion

A couplet is a ___- lined stanza.