Poetry Vocab

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Stanza

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity

• Refrain

• Assonance

• Quatrain

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

• Ballad

• Epic

• Limerick

Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry

• meter

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

Match the following

• a five line stanza

• narrative poem

• a stanza of four lines

• Quatrain

• a poem that tells a story and has a plot

• Epic

• narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

• Cinquain

Match the following

• Pattern stressed/unstressed syllables

• Simile

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  A comparison without using like or as

• Rhythm

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Rhyme

• Repetition of sounds at the end of words

• Metaphor

Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense.

• figurative language

• Line

• rhyme scheme

A word, line, or phrase that is repeated within the lines or stanzas of the poem itself.

• free verse

• refrain

• Ballad

Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

• Sonnet

• Quatrain

• free verse

A Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Onomatopoeia