Poetry & Academic Vocabulary

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What is a rhyme scheme?

Back

A pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

What is hyperbole?

Back

Exaggeration to create an effect.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

What is a couplet?

Back

A rhymed pair of lines.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

What is onomatopoeia?

Back

The use of words to imitate sounds they describe.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

What is rhythm in poetry?

Back

A steady pattern of sounds, words, musical notes that is used in poetry and dancing.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Front

What is a metaphor?

Back

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

What is simile?

Back

A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

What is alliteration?

Back

The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

Front

What is imagery?

Back

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

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Front

What is personification?

Back

Giving human traits or characteristics to non-human things.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3