Poetry Terms

The most specific or literal meaning of a word

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a second, suggested meaning of a word, consisting of the suggestions, associations, and emotional overtones attached

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• symbolism

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Compares two unlike things by speaking of one thing as if it were another

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

When nonhumans (animals, objects) are represented as being human or as having human attributes

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Overstatement; extreme exaggeration for the purpose of making a point

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Use of an object, person, place, or event that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger

• personification

• symbolism

• hyperbole

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

A metaphor carried throughout the text

• allusion

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

An implied or indirect reference to something the reader should recognize

• symbolism

• extended metaphor

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

Group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song, similar to paragraph in prose

• refrain

• stanza

• allusion

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5