Poetry Vocabulary Pre-Assessment

Define Alliteration

• A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.

• The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet’s placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a poet makes an allusion, what could they be referencing?

• A real or fictional person

• A real or fictional event

• A real or fictional place

• A real or fictional work of art

• All of the answers are possible!

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the example of assonance.

• Ivan will try to light the fire.

• From forth the fatal loins of these two foes...

• A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm.

• Love is like a battlefield.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the example of consonance.

• Ivan will try to light the fire.

• From forth the fatal loins of these two foes...

• A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm.

• Love is like a battlefield.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a ballad?

• A unified group of lines in poetry

• A story or narrative in poetic form

• A sad song that makes you want to cry

• The way to a woman's heart

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Select the definition for diction.

• The author’s specific word choice

• The attitude the poem’s narrator takes towards a subject or character

• Each poem line of poetry ending is assigned a letter of the alphabet

• The order/organization of words in a sentence

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

Duh, dum, duh, dum, duh dum is an example of what?

• Meter

• Diction

• Tone

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• Her love was like a red, red rose.

• The sky is blue

• His teeth were as yellow as a school bus.

• He was a lion on the football field.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify an example of enjambment.

• Love is a battlefield

• If this were a poem,

  this would be

  a very short poem.

• The car went ZOOM as it buzzed by.

• Alexander loves to ask asinine questions.

What is the identifying characteristic of a free verse poem.

• It follows a 5-7-5 structure.

• It only has 10 syllables and 5 feet.

• It does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.

• It contains the word "free."

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4