Poetry Practice Assessment: Identifying Stanzas, Refrains, and Labeling Poems as Couplet, Quatrain, or Octave

two line stanza

• tercet

• quatrain

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

four line stanza

• tercet

• quatrain

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

nine line stanza

• sestet

• couplet

• spenserian

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

six line stanza

• sestet

• octave

• quintet

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

five line stanza

• octave

• quintet

• tercet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

three line stanza

• tercet

• octave

• spenserian

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

eight line stanza

• spenserian

• octave

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

what is a poem?

• literary work composed of paragraphs and feelings and intensity.

• literary work in which special intensity is govern to the expression of feelings.

• literary work of non fiction in which an author uses a series of related paragraphs to examine an idea.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

a group of lines in a poem

• paragraph

• poetry

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

She was a little tense

The notice made no sense

I saw a little hermit crab

His coloring was oh so drab

It's hard to see the butterfly

Because he flies across the sky

• couplet

• tercet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4