Poetry Terminology

2. a unit of poetry
4. poetic metaphor using a striking parallel between ostensibly different things
5. two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes
6. regular or equivalent time intervals or recurrence of specific sounds
11. repetition of initial identical consonant sounds
13. the six-lined division of an Italian sonnet
14. a stanza of five lines
16. art and practice of writing verse
19. repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning, within, or end of words - not an end rhyme
20. a poem that tells a story
21. brief subjective poem marked by imagination, melody, and emotion which creates a single, unified impression

1. a stanza of four lines with varying options for rhyme schemes
3. a seven-lined iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc
7. a stanza of three lines with ending rhymes
8. words formed by telescoping two words into one
9. dividing lines into feet to describe rhythm
10. the unit of rhythm in verse
12. repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words - not a end rhyme
15. fourteen line poem with iambic pentameter and specific rhyme scheme
17. eight lined stanza - the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet
18. recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern