Poetry Terms

TWO lines that rhyme.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

word pictures created through the use of figurative language or vivid descriptions

• imagery

• metaphor

• near phyme

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

poem paragraph/groups of lines in a poem

• free verse

• sensory detail

• stanza

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

same ending sounds of words

• rhythm

• line

• rhyme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

extreme exaggeration

• stanza

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

repetition of the same beginning sound of words

• imagery

• hyperbole

• free verse

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

direct comparison between two things (NOT using like or as)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

words that appeal to the sight, hearing, smell, taste, and/or touch

• sensory detail

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

pattern of rhymes used in a poem

• repetition

• couplet

• rhythm

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

comparison between two things using like or as

• symbol

• stanza

• simile

• personifcation

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5