Poetry

Alliteration

• Repeating consonant sounds (at

  the beginning of words) in one

  line of poetry.

• Changing the letters of a word (at the end of a line) to make it rhyme.

• When the end of words at the end of a line sound different.

• When a poet makes it seem like one thing, but it is another.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

Allusion

• A reference to something you don't know about, but comes up later in the poem.

• A direct or indirect reference to

  a familiar figure, place or event.

• When a line repeats itself.

• Exaggeration for effect.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Hyperbole

• What does the poet mean?

• When the poet writes about a personal subject.

• Answering a question a poet has asked.

• Exaggeration for effect.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Imagery

• What the author feels.

• What the author makes you feel.

• Lines/phrases that appeal to five

  senses.

• A specific event in history

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Metaphor

• Comparison using like or as.

• Comparison without using like or as.

• When the end of a line sounds the same.

• Without rhyming.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Onomatopia

• When an author purposefully has the same syllables in each line of poetry.

• When an author writes about their feelings.

• The use of words which sound

  like what they mean.

• When an author hand writes poems instead of typing them.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Personifacaton

• Sound words

• Rhyming words

• Misspelling words

• Giving human attributes to an

  animal, object or idea.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Repition

• When the end of words sound the same.

• When people don't get the message of the poem.

• A poet repeats a word or phrase

  through the course of a poem.

• When a poem doesn't have a message.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

External Rhyme

• The words in one line of poetry .

• Last words of two separate lines

  of poetry rhyme.

• When the middle words of a line of poetry rhyme.

• When a line in the poem and the title rhyme.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Internal Rhyme

• Middle word rhymes with last

  word in one line of poetry.

• When words sound like the sounds they are describing.

• When multiple words begin with the same sound and are close together.

• When a poem doesn't make any sense at all.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5