A Lesson to Teach Poetry Terms

A poem that tells a story

• narrative poetry
• lyric poetry
• free verse
• blank verse

Poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings

• narrative poetry
• lyric poetry
• blank verse
• free verse

The overall feeling created for the reader

• Mood
• Foreshadowing
• Personification
• Sonnet

The author's attitude toward the subject matter

• mood
• tone
• imaagery
• couplet

The implied meaning of the words

• connotation
• denotation
• free verse
• meter

the literal meaning or dictionary meaning of the words

• connotation
• denotation
• onomatopoeia
• imagery

   A 14 line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter

• free verse
• blanke verse
• couplet
• sonnet

When a line of poetry has ten syllables per line following an unstressed/stressed pattern

• couplet
• onomatopoeia
• iambic pentameter
• free verse

A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives the poetry a rhythmic quality

• meter
• ssymbolism
• personification
• rhyme scheme

The musical quality created by meter

• rhyme
• sonnet
• blank verse
• rhythm