Poetry Terms - 9th Grade

Example: Her smile was as bright as the sun.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Ballad

• Haiku

The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called _________. Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

A _________ is a 14-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme. Example: Shakespeare's sonnets.

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Ballad

Example: I told you a million times!

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

A poem that tells a story is called __________ __________. Example: "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

• Narrative Poetry

• Lyrical Poetry

• Haiku

• Sonnet

A three-line Japanese poem with a 5-7-5 syllable structure is called a _________. Example: An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond— / Splash! Silence again.

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Limerick

• Ballad

A _________ is a group of lines in a poem. Example: A paragraph in poetry.

• Stanza

• Verse

• Line

• Couplet

The repetition of vowel sounds is known as _________. Example: The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

A two-line rhyming stanza is called a _________. Example: The cat sat on the mat.

• Couplet

• Triplet

• Quatrain

• Sestet

A poem without a fixed meter or rhyme is called ________ _________.

• Free Verse

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Limerick