Academic Vocabulary Final Quiz

First Name

Last Name

Class Period

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A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba

• Limerick
• Acrostic
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Ballad

A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the adventures of heroic figures or the history of a nation

• Epic
• Acrostic
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Ballad

A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

• Iamb
• Acrostic
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Ballad

Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially at the ends of lines of poetry

• Rhyme
• Acrostic
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Ballad

A basic structural component of a poem

• Line
• Acrostic
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Ballad

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

• Internal Rhyme
• Acrostic
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Ballad

In poetry, the repetition of the sound near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

• Assonance
• Acrostic
• Alliteration
• Ballad
• Blank verse