Poetry & FIgurative Terms/DEFINITIONS

The overall term for language that is stated creatively and used to make a special point -- NOT meaning exactly what is said 'word for word'

• literal

• figurative

• prose

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The pattern of rhyme for words at the end of each line of poetry -- such as ABAB, CDCD...

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

• meter

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The overall term for type of writing arranged in 'LINES' like in songs and poems -- NOT in sentences & paragraphs like in essays, short stories, novels, etc.

• figurative language

• literal language

• verse

• prose

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Language that is described so vividly it appeals to any of the five physical senses -- sight, sound, touch, smell, taste.

• imagery

• prose

• figure of speech

• literal language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

One "section" of a multi-section poem -- formed by lines grouped together and separated with an extra space between sections

• lyric

• couplet

• stanza

• refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure a speech phrase that cannot be understood by the meanings of its individual words, often used by people from a certain region

• literal language

• idiom

• imagery

• prose

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A familiar, wise saying -- often passed down by generations -- that offers advice and/or makes a clever observation about life. EXAMPLE: "Don't judge a book by its cover."

• pun

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• aphorism

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A "play on words" using a word with double meaning OR two similar-sounding words. EXAMPLE: "Sign language can be HANDY" -- meaning both how its communicated with hands AND can be use USEFUL.)

• paradox

• oxymoron

• pun

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Two side-by-side rhyming lines of poetry that together form a complete thought. (HINT: One was often used at the end of Shakespeare's sonnets.)

• iambic pentameter

• stanza

• refrain

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Giving human characteristics or abilities to something that is non-human

• paradox

• personfication

• oxymoron

• pun