Elements of Poetry

A group of lines in the poem.

• stanza

• meter

• rhythm

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The "beat" of the poem made by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• rhythm

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

When two words end with the same sound.

• rhyme

• rhythm

• meter

• lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

A pattern of rhyming words used in a stanza.

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• meter

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

The exact number and sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of poetry.

• meter

• rhyme

• figurative language

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Comparing two unlike things by using "like" or "as"

• simile

• stanza

• personification

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as".

• metaphor

• simile

• stanza

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An extreme exaggeration.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When nonhuman are given human qualities.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Words that sound almost exactly like what they are describing.

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• rhyme

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3