Poetic Structure and Devices

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

The order/pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. 

• Internal rhyme
• Meter
• Alphabetical Order
• Rhyme Scheme

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

A poem's rhyme, rhythm, stanzas, and meter refer to its______.

• Stanza
• Set-up
• Structure
• Sentences

a poem that does not have rhyme and does not have meter; has no restrictions

• limerick
• quatrain
• stanza
• free verse

a phrase or line of poetry that is repeated throughout a poem to create a special effect

• meter
• rhyme
• refrain
• rhyme scheme

A quatrain is a group of how many lines?

• 8
• 5
• 4
• 14

A couplet is a group of how many lines?

• 2
• 1
• 4
• 12

An emotional feeling or the atmosphere the writer creates in or for the READER

• tone 
• mood
• hyperbole
• symbolism