Garloch Poetry Terms 5.3

What is a metaphor

• Comparing two things, using like or as
• comparing two things without like or as
• human characteristics to a nonhuman thing
• rhyming words

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

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

__________ is the process of giving human qualities to something that isn't human.

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Simile 
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

A group of lines in a poem.

• Stanza
• Line
• Sentence
• Paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

Type of poem that tells a story.

• Limerick 
• Haiku
• Narrative
• Free Verse 

Exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken literally

• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Free Verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

The message or lesson that the poet is trying to communicate with the reader

• Theme
• Tone
• Mood
• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human

• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Personification
• Speaker

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Words that are used to represent particular sounds

• Symbolism
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the ends of lines of poetry

• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Rhyme Scheme
• Speaker