Poetry Vocabulary

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

• symbol

• stanza

• syllable

• line

The __________ is the beat of the poem.

• Sound

• Music

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

What are stanzas?

• The poem's speaker

• The poem's groups of lines

• The poem's central ideas

• The poem's best rhymes

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

the pattern created by placing rhyming words in specific places

• rhythm

• rhyme scheme

• rhyme

• refrain

This pen is perfect,

Just right for my size.

This pen is indeed perfect,

But there is something I despise.

The lid is cracked and

The ink is running low.

The pen is a little crooked.

I guess it is a little old, but

Otherwise everything is fine.

This pen is my favorite

With its words still engraved

And its healthy green glow.

• apostrophe/ ode

• free verse

• sonnet

• elegy

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

• apostrophe/ ode

• free verse

• sonnet

• elegy

Peace is...

• apostrophe/ ode

• free verse

• sonnet

• elegy

Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?

• Plane and Chair

• Tree and Sky

• Cat and Hat

• Cough and Dough