Literary Term Review June 2025

haiku

• poetry with vivid and musical language

• poetry that takes the shape of its subject

• 3 lined Japanese poetry that often describes a scene in nature and expresses strong emotion

• poetry with no definite rhythm or rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

stanza

• true

• not true

• a pattern of rhymes

• a poem's version of a paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

concrete poetry

• poetry without a definite rhythm or rhyme

• poetry that takes the shape of its subject

• poetry with vivid and musical language

• 3 lined Japanese poetry that often describes a scene in nature and expresses strong emotion

exact rhyme

• when words sound identical

• when words sound similar but not identical

• when words sound like the sound they represent

• when words or phrases are repeated

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

half rhyme

• when words sound identical

• when words sound similar but not identical

• when words sound like the sound they represent

• when words or phrases are repeated

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

rhyme scheme

• when poems don't have to have a definite rhythm or rhyme

• a poem's version of a paragraph

• a pattern of rhymes

• when words or phrases are repeated

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

prose

• ordinary writing that you usually see in books, magazines, and newspapers

• true

• not true

• when a word or phrase is repeated

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

narrative poem

• the perspective from which a story is told

• false

• poetry that takes the shape of its subject

• poetry that tells a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

metaphor

• a comparison between two or more generally unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison between two or more generally unlike things not using "like" or "as"

• when a word or phrase is repeated

• extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

simile

• a comparison between two or more generally unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison between two or more generally unlike things not using the words "like" or "as"

• when words or phrases are repeated

• when words sound identical

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D