Unit 4 - Poetry Vocabulary

"The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky" is an example of ...

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"This house is as clean as a whistle" is an example of...

• simile
• metaphor
• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author
• Speaker
• Narrator
• Main character

Tags

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.K.5

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.

• Musical
• Old-fashioned
• Important
• Difficult

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.K.5

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

language not meant to be taken literally

• figurative langauge
• denotation
• fancy langauge
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3