GRADE 12 POETRY TERMS
QUIZ
speaker - CORRECT ANSWERS-the narrator of a poem
stanza - CORRECT ANSWERS-a group of lines arranged together
couplet - CORRECT ANSWERS-a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
rhythm - CORRECT ANSWERS-a pattern recurring at regular intervals, can be created
by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain,
meter - CORRECT ANSWERS-a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
free verse - CORRECT ANSWERS-no repeating patterns of syllables, no rhyme,
conversational, modern
end rhyme - CORRECT ANSWERS-a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at
the end of another line
internal rhyme - CORRECT ANSWERS-a word inside a line rhymes with another word
on the same line
approximate rhyme - CORRECT ANSWERS-rhyme in which the final sounds of words
are similar but not identical. Also known as slant rhyme, imperfect rhyme, close rhyme,
near rhyme,
rhyme scheme - CORRECT ANSWERS-a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not
always); this pattern is shown with letters
onomatopoeia - CORRECT ANSWERS-words that imitate the sound they name
alliteration - CORRECT ANSWERS-consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of
words
consonance - CORRECT ANSWERS-a type of alliteration in which the repeated
consonant sounds are anywhere in the words
assonance - CORRECT ANSWERS-the repetition of vowel sounds
refrain - CORRECT ANSWERS-a sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a
poem
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