Sonnet and Poetry Vocabulary

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

• stanza

• haiku

• rhythm

• rhyme

a piece of poetry

• stanza

• verse

• refrain

• epic

a stanza with two lines of verse

• free verse

• couplet

• epic

• refrain

part of a song or poem that is repeated at regular intervals

• lyric

• verse

• stanza

• refrain

a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author

• tone

• epic

• meter

• rhythm

14 line poem

• sonnet

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• lyric poetry

the pattern of end rhymes in a poem

• rhyme scheme

• meter

• lyric poetry

• sonnet

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

• meter

• sonnet

• lyric poetry

• rhyme scheme

a type of poem with 14 lines made up of 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet at the end.

• symbolism

• acrostic

• sonnet

• stanza

the chunks of a poem; the paragraph of the poetry world!

• stanza

• lines

• meter

• rhyme scheme