Literary Terms

Text Evidence:

• comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

• evidence from a text that supports ideas and arguments

• sentences with similar structures

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.9

Theme:

• an insight about human life that is revealed in literary work

• the pattern of rhymes in a poem

• poetry that expresses personal emotions or feelings

• a kind of template or formula poetry can be composed in

Tone:

• poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme

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

• attitude a writer takes towards the subject of a work

• repetition of same consonant sounds in words close together

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Poetic Forms:

• group of consecutive lines that forms a structural unit in a poem

• words that have some correspondence in sound but not an exact one

• the literal meaning of a word

• the structure and form of poems

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

a group of consecutive lines that forms a structural unit in a poem

• parallelism

• imagery

• stanza

• lyric

Fixed Form:

• an exaggeration

• a kind of template or formula poetry can be composed in

• use of language to evoke a picture of a person, place, thing or experience

• word or phrase that doesn't have a literal meaning

Free Form:

• poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme

• comparison of two unlike things through multiple sentences

• attitude a writer takes towards the subject of a work

• emotional associations attached to a word or phrase

Blank Verse:

• 14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter that has one of two basic structures

• repetition of same/similar final consonant sounds in important words

• poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

• sentences with similar structure

poetry that expresses personal emotions or feelings

• hyperbole

• lyric

• theme

• text evidence

14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter that has one of two basic structures

• simile

• slant rhyme

• metaphor

• sonnet