7th Grade Poetry Vocabulary

Jubilant and Chipper are both 

• Rhyme 
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Apostrophes

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”
- from, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

What is this excerpt an example of?

• a simile
• a banana
• an apostrophe
• irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow
 
glazed with rain
water
 
beside the white
chickens.

What term best suits this poem?

• complex
• New York School
• Imagist
• concise

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Which is the term for a poem written about a painting:

• Sonnet
• WCW Poem
• New York School
• Ekphrastic Poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line break is called

• caesura 
• pause
• enjambment
• lyrical moves

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

How much can I fit
Into a Haiku format
Oh no I’m out of
     
This is a haiku. These types of moves and rules are the _____ of the poem.

• stanza
• form
• acrostic
• sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which poetic device should not be used in Free Verse Poetry?

• simile
• imagism
• form
• death

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem

• poem
• stanza
• simile
• paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Bay, say, day, delay is an example of what? 

• Rhyme
• Rhythm
• Song
• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

Rhythm:

• Uses lots of alliteration
• is created by stressed and Unstressed syllables
• Comes from rhyme
• Sounds crispy when you read

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9