Poetic Structure Definition Pairs

Match the following

• A stanza with 6 lines

• Quatrain

• A stanza with 5 lines

• Cinquain

• A stanza with 3 lines

• Couplet

• A stanza with 4 lines

• Sestet

• A stanza with 2 lines

• Tercet

Match the following

• A stanza with 4 lines

• Septet

• A stanza with 7 lines

• Octave

• A stanza with 5 lines

• Quatrain

• A stanza with 6 lines

• Cinquain

• A stanza with 8 lines

• Sestet

Match the following

• A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark

• Enjambment

• When a sentence overflows onto the next line in a poem

• Caesura

• When there is a pause in the line of a poem indicated by a comma, colon, semi-colon, dash or period

• End-stopped line

Match the following

• AA

• Alternate rhyme

• ABAB

• Enveloped rhyme

• ABBA

• Rhyming couplet

Match the following

• When the words at the end of two lines rhyme

• Internal rhyme

• When a word inside a line rhymes with another word in the same line

• End rhyme

• Either vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical (ex. eyes, light; years, yours).

• Slant rhyme (Half rhyme)

Match the following

• When two lines follow the same grammatical form

• Refrain

• A line repeated several times over the course of a poem - usually at the end of a stanza

• Anaphora

• The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines

• Parallelism

Match the following

• When a sentence that should have conjunctions has none (I bought eggs, milk, bread)

• Volta

• When a sentence has too many conjunctions (I bought eggs and milk and bread)

• Polysyndeton

• The turning point in a poem

• Asyndeton

Match the following

• Two things that are direct opposites

• Paralellism

• When you put two things next to each other to highlight the difference

• Antithesis

• When two lines follow the same grammatical form

• Juxtaposition