Quarter 4 Academic Vocabulary

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• Her eyes shine like the morning sun
• His dog eats a boat load of food
• The walls stretch to the ceiling 
• Our classroom is a zoo

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• The cat sat quietly by the door.
• Crash! The dishes slammed against the counter 
• The bee bumbled and buzzed by.
• The wind screamed and howled in the night.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A fourteen line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme according to its type.

• Epic

• Narrative Poem

• Sonnet

• Limerick

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A four line stanza.

• couplet

• refrain

• quatrain

• octave

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Stanza

• A poem that has a regular pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables

• Verse unit groups created by poets

• Comparing 2 unlike things using like or as

• A humorous 5 line poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A comparison between 2 unlike things using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Limerick

• E.E. Cummings

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical

• Meter

• Internal Rhymes

• Slant Rhymes

• Images

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Sounds that rhyme exactly

• Perfect Rhyme

• Exact Rhyme

• Matching Rhyme

• Correct Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When a poem is written with a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (To the piano players out there)

• Key

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme

• Wild Poem

• Rhyme Scheme

• Meter

• Free verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9