Poetry Terminology

Patterns like 'a,b,b,a' or 'a,b,c,b' show what in a poem?

Repetition of vowel sounds within words is known as...?

Sounds 's', 'sh' or 'z' are called...?

Repetition of the sound at the beginning of words is called...?

A 'paragraph' in a poem is called a ...?

Iambic pentameter is an example of a r...?

An end-stopped line of poetry is a line that finishes with a full-stop, an exclamation mark or what other type of punctuation?

Which features are present in the following lines of poetry? So silent was the selfish night that My heart could hardly hear hers. The noises and messes and vibrancy of life were extinguished. Gone from the world.

• rhyme

• sibilance

• assonance

• enjambment

• caesura

A group of lines in a poem

• rhyme pattern

• stanza

• speaker

• meter

The person talking in a poem is called

• the speaker

• the narrator

• the protagonist

• the antagonist