Poetry Vocabulary Terms

a stanza with two lines of verse

• free verse

• couplet

• epic

• refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

• meter

• lyric

• sonnet

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

• elegy

• stanza

• verse

• epic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

• lyric

• free verse

• mood

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse

• lyric

• meter

• line

• refrain

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

patterns / similarities in final sounds of two or more lines

• rhyme

• rhythm

• refrain

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author

• tone

• epic

• meter

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The __________ is the beat of the poem.

• Sound

• Music

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Two or more words that end with the same sound is called _______________

• Mood

• Line

• Rhyme

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme.

• symbol

• stanza

• syllable

• line

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4