Poetry Terms Flashcards
Lines
poetry is written in lines, which can be sentences or fragments.
Form
The way the poet aranges them on the page.
Stanzas
Lines that are separated into groups.
Rhyme
Words that sound alike.
Rhyme scheme
Poems that rhyme, and follow a certain pattern.
Couplet
When stanzas are written into lines.
Rhythm
A regular beat that you can hear in poems and music.
End rhyme
When the words at the end of lines have the same sound.
Internal rhyme
When two or more words in a line has the same sound.
Repetition
When a poet repeats sounds, words, phrases, or lines for emphasis.
Poetic license
Manipulating language in a way that is that uses contractions such as flash’d and shatter’d.
Theme
An idea about people or life that is stated in general terms in one sentence.
Triplet
The poetic term for three line stanza.
Quatrain
The word for a four line stanza.
Free verse
The poems that do not have a regular be and sound more like a conversation
