Middle School Guide to Poetry

Which type of poetry tells a story?

• Lyric
• Narrative
• Haiku
• Free Verse

A word, line, or group of lines that are repeated during the course of a poem

• stanza
• line
• refrain
• quatrain

Poem that has a beginning, middle and end in terms of action

• Narrative
• Sonnet
• Refrain
• Lyric

A poem consisting of a single speaker expressing a state of mind or process or perception, feeling, emotion, or thought

• Lyric
• Sonnet
• Narrative
• Free Verse

Poetry without a regular pattern of stanzas, meter, or rhyme

• Sonnet

• Narrative

• Lyric

• Free Verse

A humorous 5-line poem that has a specific rhyme scheme and a sing-song quality

• Narrative

• Limerick

• Sonnet

• Free Verse

Poem consisting of 14 lines with an intricate (complex) rhyme scheme

• Narrative
• Haiku
• Sonnet
• Lyric

A quatrain is a group of how many lines?

• 8
• 5
• 4
• 14

Poem consisting of 3 lines with an specific pattern of syllables is

• Narrative

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Lyric

A couplet is a group of how many lines?

• 2
• 1
• 4
• 12