Literary Terms

words whose sounds suggest the meaning

• Haikus

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

literary device in which the repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs.

• Mood

• couplet

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

repeated beginning sounds

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Meter

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a line with 10 syllables to create rhythm in terza rima poems.

• Rhythm

• Haikus

• iambic pentameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

is generally conveyed through the choice of words, or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.

• Rhythm

• meter

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

a two- line stanza that rhymes.

• Repetition

• couplet

• terza rima

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

always have 17 syllables

• Haikus

• iambic pentameter

• meter

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

has tercets (stanzas with three lines) with ABA BCB CDC DED rhyme.

• Rhythm

• couplet

• terza rima sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

device in which a word or phrase which is repeated

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the main emotion in a poem

• mood

• tone

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4