Matching Worksheet

Name:__________________

Match the words in the first column to the best available answer in the second column.

 

_____	Ballad	1) the matching of sounds or syllables between lines
_____	Cinquain	2) an act or thing that represents more than itself
_____	Couplet	3)poems that are five lines in length
_____	Haiku	4) a four line stanza
_____	Limerick	5) a fourteen line poem that states a poet's personal feelings
_____	Lyric	6) a humorous verse of five lines
_____	Sonnet	7) the rhythm or pattern of accented or unaccented syllables
_____	Simile	8) repeated use of words that begin with similar sounds
_____	Metaphor	9) the rhyming words at the end of lines of poetry
_____	Personification	10) a division in a poem named for how many lines it contains
_____	Oxymoron	11)a poem that tells a story
_____	Symbol	12) an inanimate object or idea is given human qualities
_____	Onomatopoeia	13) a two line stanza
_____	Alliteration	14) an implied comparison not using "like" or "as"
_____	End Rhyme	15)two lines of verse that rhyme or state on complete idea
_____	Quatrain	16) a three line stanza
_____	Stanza	17) words put together that are opposites
_____	Couplet	18) a direct comparison using "like" or "as"
_____	triplet	19) a short poem that expresses personal feelings
_____	Rhyme	20) the sound of the word when spoken makes you think of it's meaning
_____	Metre	21) Japanese poems of three lines that present a picture of nature