Poetry Vocabulary

Front

A group of lines in a poem

Back

stanza

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Front

"Life is like a box of chocolates" is a:

Back

simile

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

Front

"The trees were dancing in the wind" is an example of:

Back

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

"Boom!" is an example of:

Back

onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

Front

"It's raining cats and dogs" is a(n):
Options: hyperbole, simile, idiom, metaphor

Back

idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

Front

"Life is a highway" is a(n): onomatopoeia, hyperbole, metaphor, simile

Back

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

Front

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Back

rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Front

"There once was a man from Peru/who dreamed he was eating his shoe" is a(n):
Options: idiom, couplet, quatrain, stanza

Back

couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

"I am so hungry I could eat a horse!" is a

Back

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

A group of four lines in a poem is a(n):

Back

quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4