Poetry Terms

A group of lines in a poem; analogous to a paragraph in prose writing.

• Paragraph

• Stanza

• Sentence

• Grouping

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

When two words have similar, but not the same, middle and end sounds.

• Rhyme

• Homophone

• Rhyme Scheme

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

When words at the end of two or more lines rhyme.

• Cat Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Rhyme

• End Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

When words in the same line of a poem have both consonance and assonance (similar sounds).

• Internal Rhyme

• External Rhyme

• Homophones

• Metaphors

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Two lines of rhymed poetry with the same meter that are next to each other within a larger poem

• Couplet

• Chicken Cutlet

• Stanza

• End Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word repeated through a series of words that are close to each other.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

A comparison of two unlike objects using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

A direct comparison of two unlike objects or ideas.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Stanza

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

An extreme exaggeration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Figurative language in which a paradox contains a direct contradiction. Ex: Jumbo shrimp

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Internal Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4