Poetry Terms

All of these are types of poetry EXCEPT:

• Sonnet
• Ballad
• Hiku
• Short Story

What structure is used in writing poetry?

• Sentences & Paragraphs
• Sentences & Stanzas
• Lines & Paragraphs
• Lines & Stanzas

A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space is a (this is like the paragraph of poetry)...

• stanza
• refrain
• ballad
• chorus

Which does not belong?

• line
• stanza
• rhyme scheme
• paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

All poems must rhyme...

• True
• False

A sentence, phrase, or word arranged into a single row in a poem is called...

• a line
• a stanza
• a rhythm
• anonymous

A comparison of two things using "like" or "as" 

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• stanza

Simile or Metaphor?
My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile
• metaphor

Two words that have the same ending sound are called...

• rhythm words
• repetitive words
• rhyming words
• stanza words

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The "beat" of the poem  is called the  

• rhythm
• rhyme 
• stanza 
• alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5