AP Lit Poetry Terms

Our feet squished in the mud.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Victoria vrooms in the van very vivaciously."

• assonance

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

personification

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

• The sun is like a light bulb.

• The Sun smiled at us.

• "A wild wind awoke in the world without." - Beowulf

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

personification

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

metaphor

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A comparison not using like or as

• Words that are sounds

• A comparison using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

imagery

• An exaggeration

• A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

simile

• A comparison using like or as

• A comparison not using like or as

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When two or more words have the same sound at the ends of lines

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

several words begin with the same consonant sound in a row

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is repetition?

• Repeating the beginning sounds of words
• Retelling what the poem was about
• Repeating words, lines, or stanzas in a poem for emphasis
• A pattern of rhyme in a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4