Poetry Terms

the repetition of vowel sounds

• assonance

• diction

• consonance

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

descriptive language that appeals to our senses

• imagery

• rhyme

• rhythm

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

the voice talking to the reader in a poem

• speaker

• tone

• narrator

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Group of lines in a poem, separated by a space

• syntax

• stanza

• slant rhyme

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"I all alone beweep my outcast state" uses

• speaker

• iambic pentameter

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/ My soul can reach" uses

• internal rhyme

• consonance

• metaphor

• end rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I've heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest sea,

Yet never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me." uses

• slant rhyme

• metaphor

• simile

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

"And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm." uses

• alliteration

• enjambment

• iamb

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"Blind eyes could blaze like meteors..." uses

• speaker

• metaphor

• assonance

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;" uses

• hyperbole

• meter

• end rhyme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4