Poetry and Figurative Language

creating images by using rich adjectives and appealing to the five sense (sight, smell, taste, sound, touch)

• imagery

• poetry

• repetition

• rhythm

the art of rhythmical writing to create beautiful or imaginative thoughts

• imagery

• poetry

• repetition

• rhythm

the act of repeating something

• imagery

• poetry

• repetition

• rhythm

a pattern of a beat in a poem (da dum, da dum, da dum)

• imagery

• poetry

• repetition

• rhythm

uninterrupted segment of speech, audible breaks in words

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• stanzas

• syllables

groups of lines in a poem

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• stanzas

• syllables

the pattern of end rhyme in poem; marked by using letters (AABB, ABAB)

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• stanzas

• syllables

when two words sound the same based on their endings

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• stanzas

• syllables

This excerpt appeals to which sense:

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue..

• sight
• smell
• touch
• taste

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which of the following lines from Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” contains imagery?

• The woods are lovely, dark and deep
•  But I have promises to keep
• And miles to go before I sleep
• All of the above

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5