Poetry Terms Test

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Ballad

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A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form.

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Approximate rhyme

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A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes.

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Prose Poem

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Usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse.

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Quatrain

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A four-line stanza; a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme.

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Iamb

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A metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

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Limerick

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A humorous five-line poem with a specific rhythm and rhyme scheme (AABBA).

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Haiku

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A traditional form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

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Sonnet

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A 14-line poem, typically written in iambic pentameter, with various rhyme schemes.

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Diction

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The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

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End Rhyme

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A rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in poetry.