Poetry Vocabulary

Front

What do we call each single line of a poem?

Back

line

Front

What do we call the "paragraph" in each poem?

Back

stanza

Front

Words that have the same ending sounds

Back

rhyme

Front

Words that have the same beginning sounds

Back

alliteration

Front

Words that represent sounds

Back

onomatopoeia

Front

Bang! Boom! Crash!

Back

onomatopoeia

Front

What literary device is used in the sentence: "She sells seashells at the seashore."?

Back

alliteration

Front

Cat/Bat/Rat/Mat

Back

rhyme

Front

The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Back

rhythm

Front

Do all poems need to rhyme?

Back

False