Poetry Vocabulary

Words or phrases that create pictures in the reader’s   mind; they often appeal to the reader’s senses.

• Allusion
• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A reference to a well-known person, place, event,   literary work, or work of art

• Allusion
• Imagery
• Irony
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The set of ideas and feelings associated with the word 

• Figurative Language
• Simile
• Connotation
• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

One thing is spoken of as though it were something else

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Use of words that imitate sounds

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of Vowel Sounds

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Onomotopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of the consonant sound at the end of the word

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Writing that is not to be interpreted literally

• Irony
• Allusion
• Stanza
• Figurative Language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Does the opposite of what you would expect

• Figurative Language
• Irony
• Allusion
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A