Week 4 Poetry Vocabulary

What is a stanza?

• a group of lines arranged together

• When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents or stands for, something else.

• a sound or word repeated regularly in a poem

• Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel

What is a symbol?

• a group of lines arranged together

• When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents or stands for, something else.

• a sound or word repeated regularly in a poem

• Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel

What is repetition?

• a group of lines arranged together

• When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents or stands for, something else.

• a sound or word repeated regularly in a poem

• Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel

What is a rhyme?

• a group of lines arranged together

• When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents or stands for, something else.

• a sound or word repeated regularly in a poem

• Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel

What is a poet?

• poem is the “narrator” of the poem

• the way the words look on the page

• the poet is the author of the poem

• a group of words together on one line of the poem

What is a speaker?

• poem is the “narrator” of the poem

• the way the words look on the page

• the poet is the author of the poem

• a group of words together on one line of the poem

What is a form?

• poem is the “narrator” of the poem

• the way the words look on the page

• the poet is the author of the poem

• a group of words together on one line of the poem

What is a line?

• poem is the “narrator” of the poem

• the way the words look on the page

• the poet is the author of the poem

• a group of words together on one line of the poem

What is a rhythm?

• The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

• the way the words look on the page

• the poet is the author of the poem

• a group of words together on one line of the poem

What is poetry?

• The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

• A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

• the poet is the author of the poem

• a group of words together on one line of the poem