Poetry Terms - grade 10

The characteristic way that a writer uses language to achieve certain effects

• Mood

• Style

• Tone

• Theme

A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work.

• Tone

• Mood

• Theme

• Style

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Characteristic speech and thought patterns in a work of literature.

• Voice

• Style

• Personification

• Mood

The choice of a particular word as opposed to others.

• Style

• Consonance

• Blank verse

• Diction

A comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• symbolism

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A comparison that suggests that one object is another one, figuratively speaking

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A term that includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature as well as all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem

• figurative language

• imagery

• symbolism

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An exaggeration or overstatement

• hyperbole

• understatement

• figurative language

• metaphor

The framework or organization of a work of literature

• theme

• structure

• tone

• Figurative language

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• allusion

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3