Poetry Vocabulary

A poem may be broken into groups of lines called

• lines

• stanzas

• structure

• meter

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.4.2D

What is the pattern of stressed and unstresed syllables in a line?

• Rhyme

• poetry

• Rhythm

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The repeating of words or lines in poetry.

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of a consonant sound.

• alliteration

• figurative language

• rhyme

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

A comparison that uses the words like or as.

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.3.4

A comparison that does not use the words like or as. It says that one thing is another.

• simile

• allusion

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A reference to a person, place, event, or work of literature

• allusion

• metaphor

• theme

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• metaphor

• allusion

• point of view

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The speaker of the poem

• point of view

• theme

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The message the poet wants to share with the reader.

• theme

• simile

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4