Poetic Terms

a group of lines in a poem

• stanza

• line

• paragraph

• block

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What's the meaning of this metaphor?
"After all the fans left the stadium, the bleachers were a disaster area."

• Trash and leftover food and drinks littered the ground.
• Lots of caution tape was used to block off sections.
• Reporters were everywhere trying to catch a story.
• After the game, a tornado hit.

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Rhythm is....

• The beat you hear when reading a poem
• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
• what you use to determine meter
• all of the above

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is a stanza?

• A group of words or a phrase in a poem
• A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in poetry
• a pattern of rhyme in a poem
• repeating words, phrases, or lines for emphasis

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the mood of a story or poem?

• attitude of the speaker, character, or narrator
• repetition of sounds
• how the protagonist feels
• the feeling created in the audience by the words of the writer

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

This is an example of: 
He was a Romeo with the ladies. 

• Allusion
• Oxymoron
• Similie
• Pun

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This is an example of:
The Gatorade quenched my thirst after I sprinted around the track with the sun beating down. 

• Imagery
• Allusion
• Personification
• Pun

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
• The time and place of the story
• The summary of events in the story

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before"

What is the mood of the passage?

• romantic

• sorrowful

• joyful

• suspenseful