Poetry Terms for the Provincial Exam
English 12
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WORD BANK: Alliteration, allusion, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, balladstanza, blankverse, cacophony,
cinquain, concrete, consonance, couplet, descriptive, didactic, dissonance, dramatic, dramaticmonologue,
elegy, epic, epigram, epitaph, euphony, figurativelanguage, freeverse, iambicpentameter, lyric, meter, mood,
narrative, octave, ode, onomatopoeia, pastoral, poetry, quatrain, quintain, refrain, repetition, rhyme,
rhymescheme, rhythm, sestet, sonnet, speaker, stanza, triplet, verse.
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1 a poem of high
seriousness with
irregular stanzas
3 an extended narrative
poem with a heroic or
superhuman protagonist
engaged in an action of
great significance in a
vast setting
6 an eight-line stanza or
poem
8 poetry that teaches a
moral lesson
13 a lyric poem of fourteen
lines in iambic
pentameter following
one of several possible
rhyme schemes
14 a five-line stanza or
poem
16 The close repetition of
identical consonant
sounds
17 (two words) the pattern
of rhyme within a stanza
or poem
19 a group of three lines of
verse
20 unpleasant dissonance
22 a melancholy poem
lamenting its subject's
death but ending in
consolation
24 a reference to a
historical, mythic, or
literary person, place,
event, etc.
26 a group of two or more
lines in a poem linked
on the basis of length,
meter, rhyme scheme,
or thought A poetry
“paragraph”
27 (two words) unrhymed
iambic pentameter
28 brief poems that express
personal thoughts and
feelings
29 Poetry that describes a
scene or object
31 similarity of sounds
36 a four line poem or
stanza with regular
rhyme and rhythm
37 a poem that tells a story
by using speech and
action (e.g.
Shakespeare's plays)
39 the "voice" in a poem
that is not narrative
42 (2 words) a quatrain
with regular rhythm and
rhyme, such as might
be found in a ballad
43 the pattern of stressed
and unstressed sounds
in a poem, and the
number of syllables per
line
44 poetry that tells a story
45 an imaginative
awareness of
experience expressed
through meaning,
sound, and rhythmic
language
46 the feeling (emotion)
created in the reader by
the poem
47 a line or lines repeated
at intervals during a
poem
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2 (two words)a poem
representing itself as a
speech made by one
person to a silent
listener, usually not the
reader
4 A five-line poem with a
fixed syllable count The
count is 2,4,6,8,2
5 The close repetition of
similar vowel sounds
7 a six-line stanza or
poem
9 Words that imitate the
sounds they represent,
such as “crunch” or
“buzz”
10 (two words) used by
Shakespeare and in
sonnets. Ten syllables
per line
11 a pair of successive
rhyming lines
12 (two words) does not
have regular rhyme or
rhythm
15 Takes on the shape of
is subject
18 a pleasing harmony of
sounds The opposite of
cacophony
21 the repetition of sounds
in nearby words, usually
involving the first
consonant sounds
23 (2 words) a poem
representing itself as a
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speech made by one
person to a silent
listener, usually not the
reader
(2 words) language
using "figures of
speech" such as similes,
metaphors, and
personification
writing found on a tomb
stone
the rhythmic pattern of a
line, usually caused by
the number and
arrangement of metrical
units called “feet”
A narrative poem with
regular rhyme and
rhythm, originally written
to be sung
another term for poetry
a poem that extols the
virtues of country life
harsh-sounding
language Also called
cacophony
an address to a dead or
absent person or
personification as if he
or she were present
When a sound, word,
phrase, line or stanza is
repeated
a brief witty poem