Poetry: meter and sound: fill in the blanks · Grade 9

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• trochee · caesura · pentameter · sibilance ____ stride over free verse ____ anapests · enjambment
• 1 The term enjambment comes from a French verb meaning to ____, as a sentence strides over a line break.
• 2 A line that ends with a pause is called end-stopped, the opposite of ____.
• 3 Walt Whitman's long, rolling lines helped make · central to American poetry.
• 4 Limericks usually gallop along in ____, two light syllables before each stress.
• 5 A · is often marked by punctuation, such as a period or dash in the middle of a line.
• 6 Poets often open a line with a · for emphasis, reversing the expected iamb.
• 7 In 'whispering silver seas,' the repeated hissing s sounds create ____.
• 8 Iambic · has five iambs per line, ten syllables that rise and fall like a heartbeat.