Poetry Terms Interactive Matching Quiz
- Alliteration – Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
- Allusion – Reference to a well-known person, place, or event.
- Apostrophe – Addressing an absent person, abstract concept, or inanimate object.
- Assonance – Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
- Ballad – Narrative poem often set to music.
- Blank Verse – Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
- Caesura – Pause within a line of poetry.
- Couplet – Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
- Diction – Word choice in a poem.
- Elegy – Poem mourning the loss of someone or something.
- Ekphrastic – Poem inspired by a work of art.
- Enjambment – Continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line to the next without a pause.
- Envoi – Concluding stanza of a poem.
- Epiphany – Moment of sudden realization or insight.
- Free Verse – Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
- Haiku – Japanese poem with three lines and syllable pattern 5-7-5.
- Hyperbole – Exaggerated statements used for emphasis.
- Imagery – Vivid description that appeals to the senses.
- Irony – Contrast between expectation and reality.
- Juxtaposition – Placing two things close together for comparison.
- Limerick – Humorous poem with five lines and a specific rhyme scheme.
- Metaphor – Direct comparison between two unlike things.
- Meter – Rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- Mood – Emotional atmosphere of a poem.
- Ode – Poem expressing admiration or praise for someone or something.
- Onomatopoeia – Words that imitate the sound they represent.
- Personification – Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
- Quatrain – Stanza with four lines.
- Repetition – Repeating words or phrases for emphasis.
- Rhyme – Correspondence of sound between words.
- Simile – Comparison using “like” or “as.”
- Sonnet – 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter.
- Stanza – A group of lines in a poem.
- Symbolism – Use of objects or actions to represent abstract ideas.
- Synecdoche – Figure of speech where a part represents the whole.
- Tone – Author’s attitude toward the subject
Poetry Terms Interactive Matching Quiz covers 36 terms and definitions. Students can input, check, clear, and go to next matching set. There are 6 matching sets each covering 6 poetry terms and their definitions.
Poetry Terms Matching Activity
Matching Set 1
A: Rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
B: Direct comparison between two unlike things.
C: Correspondence of sound between words.
D: Comparison using “like” or “as”.
E: Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
F: A group of lines in a poem.
Matching Set 2
A: Words that imitate the sound they represent.
B: Use of objects or actions to represent abstract ideas.
C: Continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line to the next without a pause.
D: Vivid description that appeals to the senses.
E: Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
F: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Matching Set 3
A: A poem without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
B: A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter.
C: A Japanese poem with three lines and syllable pattern 5-7-5.
D: A humorous poem with five lines and a specific rhyme scheme.
E: A narrative poem often set to music.
F: Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
Matching Set 4
A: Exaggerated statements used for emphasis.
B: Repeating words or phrases for emphasis.
C: Word choice in a poem.
D: Poem mourning the loss of someone or something.
E: Poem expressing admiration or praise for someone or something.
F: A stanza with four lines.
Matching Set 5
A: Placing two things close together for comparison.
B: Emotional atmosphere of a poem.
C: Figure of speech where a part represents the whole.
D: Author’s attitude toward the subject.
E: Contrast between expectation and reality.
F: Reference to a well-known person, place, or event.
Matching Set 6
A: Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
B: Pause within a line of poetry.
C: Addressing an absent person, abstract concept, or inanimate object.
D: Concluding stanza of a poem.
E: Moment of sudden realization or insight.
F: Poem inspired by a work of art.
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