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Poetry Terminology

Authored by Patricia Narvaez

English

9th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 40+ times

Poetry Terminology
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two unlike ideas: Good as gold, Spread like wildfire, etc.

denotation

metaphor

simile

connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.

metaphor

simile

hyperbole

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem. The speaker is the character who tells the poem.

denotation

connotation

personification

speaker

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.

symbolism

personification

connotation

simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The literal or dictionary meanings of a word.

connotation

speaker

denotation

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.

personification

onomatopeia

hyperbole

connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem: AABBA, ABACDC, etc.

metaphor

stanza

rhyme scheme

connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

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