POETRY STUDY GUIDE #4
Poetry - correct answer Type of literature in which words are chosen arranged to
created a certain effect
Form - correct answer The way a poem is laid out on a page. The length and placement
of the lines and the grouping of lines into stanzas
Alliteration - correct answer repitition of initial consonant sounds in words
Assonance - correct answer The repetition of vowel >sounds< within non-rhyming
words
Sound - correct answer Use of words to their auditory effect that can convey meaning
and mood or unify a work
Speaker - correct answer The voice that talks to the reader, similar to the narrator in
fiction. Speaker may not be poet
Figurative language - correct answer Language that communicates ideas beyond the
ordinary, literal meaning of words
Imagery - correct answer Descriptive words and phrases that recreate sensory
experiences for the reader. This is one type of figurative language; uses the 5 senses to
help you see, hear, touch, taste, or smell the topic or the poem
Free verse - correct answer does not have regular meter or rhyme but it tells a story
Lines - correct answer A phrase or sentences in a stanza
Stanzas - correct answer Grouping of two or more lines in a pattern which is repeated
throughout a poem
Rhyme - correct answer Occurrence of similar or identical sound at the ends of two or
more words
Internal rhyme - correct answer Rhyme that occurs within a line
End rhyme - correct answer Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line
Rhyme scheme - correct answer a pattern of end rhymes in a poem
