Poetry Literary Vocabulary - CKLA

describing non-human things as if they had human qualities.

• alliteration

• personification

• figurative language

• anaphora

a poem about the craft of poetry

• villanelle

• tone

• quatrain

• ars poetica

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

words that end in the same sound or sounds

• rhyme scheme

• slant rhyme

• rhyme

• rhythm

a four-line stanza

• villanelle

• quatrain

• parallel structure

• line break

the pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• rhyme

• parallel structure

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

when the same form is repeated in a series of lines or stanzas.

• form

• content

• ars poetica

• parallel structure

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

A poetic form with nineteen lines and a set pattern of repeating lines and rhyming words.

• figurative language

• villanelle

• excerpt

• form

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

a comparison that is not made directly

• implied metaphor

• apostrophe

• metaphor

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

an indirect reference to an outside work of art or a cultural figure.

• ars poetica

• apostrophe

• anaphora

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

a figure of speech in which words typically used to describe one thing are used to describe something else in order to suggest a likeness

• allusion

• implied metaphor

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4