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Poetry Vocabulary

Authored by Mariah Smith

English

6th - 9th Grade

CCSS covered

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Poetry Vocabulary
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is author's purpose?

a storytelling tool or literary device an author uses to produce the desired artistic effect

The author’s intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince the audience to do or not do something.

The perspective from which the author is writing from.

Certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is hyperbole?

A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell; figurative language.

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

n exaggeration or overstatement (e.g., I was so embarrassed I could have died.)

Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5A

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is imagery?

A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell; figurative language.

A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used. (e.g., She eats like a bird.)

Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing (e.g., dialogue, alliteration).

Writing that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery, connotative and concrete words.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.W.6.3D

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are literary devices?

An exaggeration or overstatement (e.g., I was so embarrassed I could have died.).

Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem.

A figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics. It is saying something is something else.

Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing (e.g., dialogue, alliteration).

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a metaphor?

Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem.

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

A figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.

A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is poetry?

Writing that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery, connotative and concrete words.

A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used.

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

The author’s intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince the audience to do or not do something.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is rhyme?

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

An exaggeration or overstatement

Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing (e.g., dialogue, alliteration).

Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

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