Poetry Vocabulary

Words rhyme when they have the same...

• beginning sound

• ending sound

• middle sound

Tags

CCSS.RF.K.2A

CCSS.RL.2.4

Rhythm is...

• comparing two things using like or as

• repeating the same beginning sound

• a pattern of sounds

• comparing two things without using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Click on the example of personification

• The apple was as big as my head

• Time, Dime

• This classroom is a zoo

• The angry clouds marched across the sky

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A simile...

• compares two things using like or as

• compares two things without using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A metaphor

• compares two things using like or as

• compares two things without using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A group of lines in a poem is called...

• A stanza

• A line

• A Paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Mar'Shawn munched on meatballs and macaroni.

The beginning sound (M) repeats over and over again in this sentence. This is an example of ________________.

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Verse is...

• a group of lines in a poem

• all of the lines in the poem with rhythm and rhyme

• one line in a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4