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WorksheetsPoetry Terms
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the difference between prose and poetry?
Poetry has normal sentences while prose has lines.
Poetry uses rhythm and pattern e.g. rhyme more than prose.
Poetry is for reading alone and prose is for reading aloud.
What is a sonnet?
A poem of serious reflection.
A five line poem in which each line requires a certain number of syllables.
A love poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter.
What is a stanza?
A break in the middle of a line of poetry.
Another word for a verse or section of a poem.
The person speaking in the poem.
What is the rhythm of poem?
The beat or pulse of the poem, like in music.
When the ends of the lines sound the same.
The meaning of the poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Pattern created by how a poem rhymes at the end of a line.
The beat or pulse of a poem, like in music.
A certain type of poem.
What is a couplet?
When two lines are joined together by punctuation.
When two words next to one another start with the same letter.
A pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme.
What is stress in poetry?
When the speaker gets angry.
Syllables stand out because they have a different pitch or are louder than other syllables.
The order the words are written in.
What is the form of a poem?
The type of poem, e.g. sonnet, haiku, dramatic monologue.
How the poem is laid out.
The pattern created by how poem rhymes at the end of a line.
What is the structure of a poem?
How quick/slow/clunky/graceful the words and lines sound.
The person speaking in the poem.
Refers to a poem's physical structure; basically, what the poem looks like and how it sounds.
What are poetic techniques?
The structural techniques utilised by the poet to enhance its message and meaning.
The various language and structural techniques utilised by the poet to enhance its message and meaning.
The feelings which are created in the audience by the poem.
