STAAR Poetry Vocabulary

What is this an example of: I could eat a horse

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a hyperbole?

• An extreme exaggeration

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Giving a non-human object human qualities

• Nothing. You just made it up.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is this an example of: The lion was a giant

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

True or false: A metaphor is a comparison made without using like or as. For example "The teacher is a mother hen."

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is imagery

• An extreme exaggeration

• visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• A comparison made between two objects using the words like or as

• The repetition of a vowel.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The tone is The attitude you feel in the poem

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The feeling you get from reading the poem

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Personification is-

• A poem that is also an auto-biography

• Putting a person in a poem

• Giving a non-human object human qualities

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is assonance?

• poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza

• a verse, a line, a set, or a group of some lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections.

• The repetition of a vowel.

• Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Which is the example of onomatopoeia

• She ran swiftly

• The bell rang

• The boy sang

• They all jumped

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5