Poetry Vocabulary & Rhyme Scheme

What do you call poetry that does not have a regular beat or rhyme scheme?

• Irregular Rhyme Scheme

• Prose

• Limerick

• Free Verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a Quatrain?

• two lines of rhymed poetry

• four lines of rhymed poetry

• four trains on the train to nowhere

• A stanza with four lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition: Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison without using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Find the figuarative langauge in the following lines:

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Find the rhyme scheme of the lines below:

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABBA

• ACDC

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition: A reference to another word of literature, person, or event.

• allusion

• idiom

• tone

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.

• mood

• sarcasm

• irony

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Easy as pie, A piece of cake, Raining cats and dog.

These are all examples of...

• idioms

• Sensory language

• imagery

• desserts

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• mood

• tone

• allusion

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4