Poetry Terms

A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form - usually lines and stanzas.

• figurative language

• symbolism

• metaphor

• poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The way the words look on the page

• idiom

• form

• stanza

• line

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

A group of words together on one line of the poem

• form

• stanza

• line

• end rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

A group of lines arranged together

• stanza

• internal rhyme

• figurative language

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

• metaphor

• line

• rhythm

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds

• imagery

• form

• stanza

• rhyme

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A word at the end or one line that rhymes with a word at the end of another line of poetry

• internal rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• end rhyme

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A word inside a line of poetry rhymes with another word in the same line

• end rhyme

• personification

• stanza

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that imitate the sound they are naming

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• mataphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning or words

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5