Poetry Terms

8. A type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds.
10. A word, line or phrase that is repeated within the lines or stanzas of a poem.
12. Fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme.
14. Both tells a story and connects the reader to an audience through emotions or behavior.
16. A line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
18. A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
19. When the endings of multiple words are exactly the same and are pronounced the same.
20. A very long poetic writing.

1. Tells stories through verse and conversation.
2. A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the firstperson.
3. A stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different
4. Is the arrangement of rhythms in a repetitive pattern of strong and weak beats.
5. A pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning.
6. A poem of seventeen syllables with three lines of five, seven, and five.
7. Unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines.
9. A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit.
11. The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
13. Verse in lines of irregular length, rhyming very irregularly.
15. When the ending of multiple lines or words sounds the same and are spelt similar.
17. A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.