VaSol 6.45 Poetry Terms

Each line has the same ending sound

Hat, Bat, Cat, Fat, Sat

• Rythm

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Allusion

A repeated pattern of sound or movement in music, poetry, or dance

• Repetition

• Prose

• Rythm

• onomatopeia

Repeating a word or phrase

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Repetition

Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a group of words

• Free Verse

• Meter

• Limerick

• Alliteration

Ordinary written or spoken language

• Prose

• Free Verse

• Allusion

• Meter

the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line

• Ballad

• Free Verse

• Meter

• Rhyme

a short Japanese poem in three lines containing 5 syllables in the first line,

7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the last line

• limerick

• free verse

• Allusion

• Haiku

A funny poem made up of five lines that rhyme in a set pattern

• Free verse

• meter

• limerick

• haiku

A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung.

• Limerick

• Onomatopeia

• prose

• Ballad

poetry without rhyme or meter

• free verse

• ballad

• alliteration

• meter