Poetry Vocabulary

What are words that imitate sounds (ex: Crash! Buzz! Roar!)

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Line Breaks

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds that creates a rhythm (ex: hickory dickory dock, the mouse went up the clock)?

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Meter

• Beat

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What do we call similarity of ending sounds in words (ex: The cat sat on the hat.)?

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is repetition of beginning consonant sounds (ex: the bubbling babbling brook)?

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What do we call a grouping of two or more lines?

• Repetition

• White Space

• Line Break

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is called when a line of poetry is broken and a new line begins?

• Meter

• Symbolism

• Line Break

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

What do we call repeating sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas?

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the empty part of the page surrounding the words in a poem called?

• Repetition

• White Space

• Line Break

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What do we call the descriptive language that engages the five senses (think sensory details)?

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

• Imagery

• White Space

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

In this short audio clip of the poem called "The Scientist and the Bumblebee", I can hear the poet using

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5