Poetry Term Review

A poem that takes a shape that suggests its subject.

• Alliteration
• Concrete Poem
• Narrative Poem
• Figurative Language

The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

• Imagery
• Free Verse
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The ordinary form of written language

• Prose
• Free Verse
• Figurative Language
• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

A figure of speech in which something is described as if it were something else.

• Personification
• Imagery
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The use of words to imitate sounds.

• Figurative Language
• Refrain
• Onomatopoeia
• Prose

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern or meter.

• Free Verse
• Narrative Poem
• Concrete Poem
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language.

• Simile
• Idiom
• Prose
• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.

• Prose
• Idiom
• Figurative Language
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Groups of lines in a poem that are usually similar in length and rhythm and are separated into sections.

• Prose
• Stanza
• Alliteration
• Refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10