Poetry Vocabulary

Groups of lines; in a story or essay, this would be called a paragraph

• verse

• stanza

• parapraph

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

ONE line in a poem; in a story or essay, this would be called a sentence

• verse

• sentence

• stanza

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Pattern of rhymes in a poem.

EX: aabb ccdd eeff gg

• end rhyme

• repetition

• rhyme scheme

• verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

An author’s attitude towards a subject—revealed through word choice and details.

• tone

• mood

• theme

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A story’s atmosphere or the feeling it evokes; how it makes the reader feel

• tone

• stanza

• theme

• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Purposeful repeating of a word, phrase, or line

• theme

• rhyme scheme

• repetition

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Rhymes that occur at the end of lines.

• rhyme scheme

• theme

• end rhymes

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Rhyming of words within a line.

Ex: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

• mood

• repetition

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The message, point, or lesson about life that the author wishes to reveal about what her topic.

• theme

• mood

• tone

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration?

• imagery

• allusion

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A