Poetry Vocabulary

What do we call each single line of a poem?

• line

• stanza

• paragraph

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

What do we call the "paragraph" in each poem?

• line

• stanza

• group

• lots of lines

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Words that have the same ending sounds

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that have the same beginning sounds

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that represent sounds

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A comparison between two things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison saying something is something else

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A phrase with a hidden meaning

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

An exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A