3rd Grade Poetry & Vocabulary Test

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What is personification?

Back

Personification is a literary device that gives human qualities to non-human things.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

What is a metaphor?

Back

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things without using 'like' or 'as'.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

What are rhyming words?

Back

Rhyming words are words that have the same ending sound, like 'rings' and 'things'.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RF.K.2A

Front

What is a simile?

Back

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Front

What is a decision?

Back

A decision is a choice made after thinking about something.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Front

What is alliteration?

Back

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

What is onomatopoeia?

Back

Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it represents, like 'buzz' or 'sizzle'.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

What is imagery in poetry?

Back

Imagery is descriptive language that creates vivid pictures in the reader's mind.

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CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

Front

What is a stanza?

Back

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

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CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

Front

What is a rhyme scheme?

Back

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem.

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CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.4.5