Poetry Terms

Question 0

Couplet

Answer 0

Set of 2 lines in a poem

(Orchid flower on the pot
Rainy summer not so hot)

Question 1

Stanza

Answer 1

Groups of lines in a poem

Like a paragraph

Question 2

Quatrain

Answer 2

4 lines in a poem

Question 3

Rhythm

Answer 3

The pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables of word

Question 4

Rhyme

Answer 4

Repetition of identical or similar sounds

Identical: cat ,hat ,sat
Similar: air ,ear

Question 5

Rhyme scheme

Answer 5

A pattern of end rhymes; labeled by using letters

a, b, c

Question 6

Figurative language

Answer 6

Language that is not meant to be interpreted literally

Examples: metaphor, personification

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

Repetition of the vowel sounds

Examples: Child of silence
Hear the mellow wedding bells.

Question 8

Consonance

Answer 8

Repetition of consonant sound in nearby words with different vowels

(Examples: Give and love)

Question 9

Paradox

Answer 9

A statement that seems contradictory but actually may be true

(The younger she acts, the older she seems )
(Nobody goes to that restaurant ,because it’s too crowded.)

Question 10

These have been covered but are also in poems

Answer 10

Alliteration
Personification 
Similar
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia 
Imagery