Poetry Terms

A comparison using like or as is a...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

"It's a million degrees in here" is an example of...

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

"The wind whistles" is an example of...

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"CRASH!" is an example of...

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The novels we read are ___________.

• prose

• poetry

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

"Taco Tuesday" is an example of....

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

"The loud brown cow" is an example of....

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Poetry that is free from rhyme, meter, and rhythm is called...

• Free Verse

• Slant Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the reoccurrence of sounds, phrases, words, lines, or stanzas in a poem?

• meter

• free verse

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

________________ is where an object, person, place, or experience means more than what it is.

• symbolism

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5