Poetry Vocab

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author
• Speaker
• Narrator
• Main character

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• The repetition of a letter.
• The repetition of an ending sound.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

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CCSS.RL.7.5

Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be ___________.

• A single word
• A sentence
• A part of sentence
• All of the above

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CCSS.RL.7.5

Groups of lines are called ______________.

• Sentences
• Stanzas
• Tony Danzas
• Line groupings

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CCSS.RL.7.5

Simile or Metaphor:
My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Simile or Metaphor:
My mother's hair is as soft as a cloud.

• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4