Poetry Terms

What is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)?

• stanza

• rhyme

• poetry

• line

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What do you call the author of the poem?

• poet

• speaker

• character

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What do you call the narrator of the poem (the voice in the poem telling the poem)?

• poet

• narrator

• speaker

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

In a poem, what do you call the appearance of the words on the page?

• line

• form

• stanza

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

In a poem, what do you call a group of words on one line? It's usually numbered.

• form

• stanza

• line

• poem

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is a couplet?

• a one-line stanza

• a two-line stanza

• a three-line stanza

• a four-line stanza

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is rhythm?

• the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

• the speaker of the poem

• a type of poetry

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is true about free verse poetry?

• It doesn't rhyme.

• It is conversational.

• It is modern poetry.

• All of these are true.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds is called...

• haiku

• rhyme

• stanza

• speaker

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an end rhyme?

• A word that rhymes with the poet's last name

• A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

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CCSS.RL.7.4