Poetry Vocabulary Practice

A type of artistic writing that attempts to stir a reader’s thoughts and emotions.

• Rhyming pattern

• Poetry

• Couplet

A grouped set of writing in a poem.

• Alliteration

• Refrain

• Stanza

A line or phrase that is repeated in a poem.

• Refrain

• Simile

• Poetry

A pair of two lines in a poem, ending words in each line rhyme.

• Quatrain

• Couplet

• Personification

A poem or a stanza that contains 4 lines that rhyme in some manner.

• Quatrain

• Octave

• Stanza

A poem or a stanza that contains 8 lines that often rhyme.

• Rhyming Pattern

• Metaphor

• Octave

Compares 2 unlike things using the words “like” or “as”.

• Couplet

• Simile

• Stanza

A direct comparison of 2 unlike things.

• Quatrain

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

When an author gives an object human qualities.

• Personification

• Octave

• Alliteration

A word that represents a sound. (swoosh, bam, pow)

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile