Poetry Vocab

A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination.

• poetry

• figurative language

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

levels of meaning expressed through personification, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, oxymoron, litote, etc.

• personification

• figurative language

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• personification

• symbols

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

comparison NOT using like or assomething ; IS something else

• personification

• symbols

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• personification

• symbols

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture

• personification

• symbols

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

• rhythm

• assonance

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

• rhythm

• assonance

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

• rhythm

• alliteration

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

• rhythm

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4