Keystone Poetic and Literary Terms Review

Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or ends of words

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like," "as," "than," or "resembles"

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

the voice talking in a poem

• speaker

• narrator

• stanza

• figure of speech

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

poems that tell stories

• lyric

• narrative

• figurative

• free verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech

• stanza

• ballad

• blank verse

• refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

song-like poems that express a speaker's thoughts or feelings

• lyric

• allegory

• narrative

• ballad

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

a line of poetry made up of five iambs

• iambic tetrameter

• iambic trimeter

• trochaic pentameter

• iambic pentameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

dictionary meaning of a word

• connotation

• denotation

• allegory

• refrain

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

poetry without regular meter or rhyme scheme

• iambic pentameter

• haiku

• free verse

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

• iamb

• spondee

• trochee

• anapest

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13