Poetry Vocabulary & Rhyme Scheme

What do you call poetry that does not have a regular beat or rhyme scheme?

• Irregular Rhyme Scheme

• Prose

• Limerick

• Free Verse

What is a Quatrain?

• two lines of rhymed poetry

• four lines of rhymed poetry

• four trains on the train to nowhere

• A stanza with four lines

Definition: Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

A comparison without using like or as

Find the figuarative langauge in the following lines:

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Find the rhyme scheme of the lines below:

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABBA

• ACDC

Definition: A reference to another word of literature, person, or event.

• allusion

• idiom

• tone

• mood

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.

• mood

• sarcasm

• irony

• tone

Easy as pie, A piece of cake, Raining cats and dog.

These are all examples of...

• idioms

• Sensory language

• imagery

• desserts

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• mood

• tone

• allusion

• idiom