Poetry Terms

The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

• Idiom

• Diction

• Nuance

• Connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Words or phrases that appeal to the senses and conjure up mental images.

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Symbol

• Caesura

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Lines of poetry that continue forward in sense and punctuation into the next line.

• Parallel Line

• Measured Line

• End-stopped Line

• Run-on Line

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.

• Meter

• Scansion

• TPCASST

• Counting

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The thoughts, feelings, and images associated with a word.

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Denotation

• Connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in the word.

• Cadence

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Prosody

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A Poem that expresses sorrow or mourning for someone who has died.

• Lyric

• Ode

• Elegy

• Ballad

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The author’s right to break the rules of proper writing in order to achieve an effect or get a point across.

• Poetic Licence

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A break between words within a metrical foot.

• Accent

• Stanza

• Stress

• Caesura

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

• Poetry

• Genre

• Narrative

• Scansion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D