Poetry Vocabulary

What do we call each single line of a poem?

• line

• stanza

• paragraph

Which vocabulary word is being defined?

The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• personification

• simile

• rhythm

• alliteration

All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

Cat/Bat/Rat/Mat

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

What do we call the "paragraph" in each poem?

• line

• stanza

• group

• lots of lines

Words that represent sounds

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Bang! Boom! Crash!

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Words that have the same ending sounds

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Poems that express personal emotions or feelings are called...

• free verse poems
• lyrical poems
• narrative poems
• humorous poems

The writer of a poem is called...

• poet
• illustrator
• author
• smart person