CKLA Grade 4 Unit 3 Poetry

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What is a metaphor?

Back

A comparison of two things without using 'like' or 'as'. Example: 'Time is a thief.'

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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What is a simile?

Back

A comparison of two things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: 'Her smile is like the sun.'

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

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What is alliteration?

Back

Repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. Example: 'Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.'

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

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What is personification?

Back

Giving human traits to non-human things. Example: 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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What is a stanza?

Back

A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

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What is rhyme?

Back

The repetition of similar sounds at the end of words. Example: 'cat' and 'hat'.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

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What is assonance?

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The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words. Example: 'The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.'

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

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What is a couplet?

Back

Two lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

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What is imagery in poetry?

Back

Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates a picture in the reader's mind.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

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What is the theme of a poem?

Back

The main idea or underlying message of the poem.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2