POEtry terms

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a completely new hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

• allegory

• alliteration

• allusion

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected or closely connected words.

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance

• irony

• alliteration

• allusion

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds

• allegory

• alliteration

• assonance

• alphabet

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a poem has lines ending in words that rhyme.

• inside rhyme

• external rhyme

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Over-exaggeration for effect.

• onomatopoeia

• motif

• hyperbole

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Language and description that appeals to the five senses.

• imagination

• internal rhyme

• irony

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When a poem has words that rhyme within one line.

• end rhyme

• almost rhyme

• internal rhyme

• external rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4