Blank Verse Unrhymed Lines of Consistent Length and Meter, Often in Iambic Pentameter

9CP Poetry Vocabulary Words

Blank Verse Free Verse Sonnet Alliteration Iambic Pentameter

Allusion Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Simile Poetry Vocabulary Activity

1) The old tree bent forward bowing toward the ground as if in respect. What term describes a tree that bows like a human? 2) That boy is a monster in class. Saying “the boy is” is what type of comparison? 3) That letter can’t reflect my talent. Using the letter ‘t’ repeatedly throughout the words can be called what? 4) Boys bound bravely beyond the beach. The repeated ‘b’ at the start of the words is called what? 5) I all alone beweep my outcast state. This is a line in a certain number of syllables and beat called what? 6) Boom the pounding drum! Because the verb ‘boom’ sounds like a drum, it is a use of what? 7) Shakespeare wrote many poems of 14 lines in iambic pentameter called what? 8) This the life I love to live Is the one I love to give These two lines in the same beat that rhyme are called what? 9) Now is the time I know so well The time that rings for listening These two unrhymed lines in the same beat are called what? 10) Lines of unmetered and unrhymed verse are called what? 11) Write two lines of rhymed verse. 12) Write a line of personification about an object in the room. 13) Write a line of dialogue using an onomatopoeia. 14) Write a line (or two!) of iambic pentameter about this class.