Poetry Context Clues

Mrs. Smith-Causey wrote a piece of literature that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions by carefully choosing and arranging language for it's meaning, sound, and rhythm.

What type of literature did Mrs. Smith-Causey write?

• Nonfiction Text

• Sequential Order Text

• Realistic Fiction

• Poetry

Mrs. Fisher wrote a group of lines that give the poem its form.

What did Mrs. Fisher write?

• alliteration

• stanza

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

What is it called when there is a place in the poem where the line ends?

• line stanza

• line break

• meter

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Mr. Hunt taught our class that this term works in music and in poetry. The rhythm or movement in a song or in poetry is called the _______________.

• simile

• rhyme

• meter

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Mrs. Wells loves to write stories about inanimate objects that come to life. Like a desk that eats pencils and talks to children... When human characteristics are given to an animal, thing, or idea it is called _____________.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• silliness

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Mrs. Schroeder told her class that their writing is more vivid for the reader when they can use details that help the reader see, smell, taste, or feel something based on the descriptions.

What is this poetry strategy called?

• vivid verbs

• sensory language

• poetry legends

• illusionary senses

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

"Mrs. Cole's shirt was as bright as the sun."

What is this sentence an example of?

• metaphor

• rhyme

• meter

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Mrs. Davich is a keen eagle. She catches everything anyone does.

This sentence is an example of what?

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• literal interpretation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

When the poem has clear details that help the reader picture the story or poem in their mind, they are using ____________.

• lots of words

• stanzas

• meter

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

My favorite poem I've read so far is...

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5