Poetry Vocabulary

a piece of poetry

• stanza

• verse

• refrain

• epic

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

• alliteration

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

• stanza

• haiku

• rhythm

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

a stanza with two lines of verse

• free verse

• couplet

• epic

• refrain

a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

• meter

• lyric

• sonnet

• metaphor

a figure of speech comparing two things using “like” or “as”

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

• elegy

• stanza

• verse

• epic

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

• lyric

• free verse

• mood

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

part of a song or poem that is repeated at regular intervals

• lyric

• verse

• stanza

• refrain

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse

• lyric

• meter

• line

• refrain