Elements of Poetry

Match the following

• grouping of lines in a poem (paragraph)

• verse

• another word for poetry

• stanza

• repitition of vowel sounds

• refrain

• repeated phrase, line or group of lines

• assonance

• pattern of end rhymes; marked by letters

• rhyme scheme

A type of literature that creates an emotional response.

A (a)   is where a line in the (b)   is​ (c)   and a​ (d)   line begins

• broken
• new
• Line Break
• poem

Ending a line of poetry without completing a clause or statement

• enjambment

• line break

• verse

• refrain

An end stopped line ends a line of poetry with a ​ (a)   ​

• complete
• incomplete

Match the following

• Alliteration

• a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed words

• Repitition

• When 2 or more words start with the same consonant sounds

• Onomatopoeia

• words that imitate the sound associated with objects or actions

• Rhythm

• Dog

  Log

  Frog

• Rhyme

• The recurring use of sound, words, or phrases

the repetition of the final sounds in two or more words

• rhyme

• stanza

• alliteration

• poem

An (a)   has ​ (b)   words at the ends of ​ (c)   or more ​ (d)   of poetry.

• end rhyme
• rhyming
• two
• lines

When rhyming words occuring the same line of poetry

• end rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• internal rhyme

• end stopped line

Match the following

• elegy

• a narrative poem that tells a story; song-like

• Ballad

• Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

• free verse

• a poem that often mourns the dead; usually formal

• Haiku

• A form of Japanese poetry that has 3 lines and seventeen syllables