Name: _____________________________
Period: ______________
Poetry Vocabulary: Connecting Examples with Terms
Directions: Match the words from the word bank with an example or explanation. You
will not use all of the words
Word Bank
1. _______________ The Iliad
2. _______________ “Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!”
3. _______________ Very strict, Japanese poem.
4. _______________ a paragraph
Alliteration, Assonance, Ballad, Epic
Poem, Iamb, Iambic Penatmeter,
Metaphor, Meter, Ode,
Onomatopoeia, Point of View,
Repetition, Rhyme, Rhyme Scheme,
Rhythm, Simile, Sonnet, Stanza,
Symbol, Tanka
5._______________ The rhythm of Shakespeare.
6. _______________ Poetry for a party
7. _______________ ABA
8. _______________ Problem solving
9. _______________ Dewdrops dancing down daisies
10. ______________ Short, narrative poem.
11. ______________ Type of foot and number of feet in a line.
12. ______________ The rain is falling all around
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
13. ______________ Speaker’s vantage point
14. ______________ “ That time | of year | thou mayest | in me | behold.”
15. ______________ Imitation of sounds
16. ______________ Like or as
17. ______________ musical quality found in poetry.
Poetry Vocabulary: Connecting Examples with Terms Answer Key
Directions: Match the words from the word bank with an example or explanation. You
will use all words only once.
Word Bank
1. Epic Poem The Iliad
2. Assonance “Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!”
3. Tanka Very strict, Japanese poem.
4. Stanza a paragraph
Alliteration, Assonance, Ballad, Epic
Poem, Iamb, Iambic Penatmeter,
Metaphor, Meter, Ode,
Onomatopoeia, Point of View,
Repetition, Rhyme, Rhyme Scheme,
Rhythm, Simile, Sonnet, Stanza,
Symbol, Tanka
5.Iambic Pentameter The rhythm of Shakespeare.
6. Ode Poetry for a party
7. Rhyme Scheme ABA
8. Sonnet Problem solving
9. Alliteration Dewdrops dancing down daisies
10. Ballad Short, narrative poem.
11.Meter Type of foot and number of feet in a line.
12. Repetition
The rain is falling all around
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
13. Point of View Speaker’s vantage point
14. Iamb “ That time | of year | thou mayest | in me | behold.”
15. Onomatopoeia Imitation of sounds
16. Simile Like or as
17. Rhythm musical quality found in poetry.