Poetry Vocabulary Quiz

Front

Repetition of sounds at the ends of words (e.g., pool, rule, fool)

Back

Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Use of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence more than once.

Back

Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Words that imitate sounds: crash, bang, hiss, splat

Back

Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Beat from stressed and unstressed syllables

Back

Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Front

Repetition of consonant sounds at the start of words: lovely lonely lights

Back

Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Comparison using 'like' or 'as' between unlike things.

Back

Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Gives human traits to nonhuman things.

Back

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

Back

Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Describes something using the five senses for a vivid picture.

Back

Sensory language.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Poetry that conveys a single speaker's thoughts and feelings in musical verse.

Back

Lyric

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D