Poetry Vocabulary

What is a group of lines (like a paragraph) in a poem called?

• Sestet

• Stanza

• Metaphor

• Forte

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the name for two lines of poetry in a row that rhyme?

• Rhyming stanza

• Tandem stanza

• Tandem couplet

• Rhyming couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What word is defined as "visually descriptive or figurative language"?

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Stanza

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

When a line in split into two lines, like this, what is it called?

I'm feeling rather sleepy, but

I don't know why

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Enjambment

What poetic device is this an example of:

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"

• Hypothermia

• Hyperbole

• Lying

• Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Check as many examples of alliteration as you can see below.

• Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• I was thirsty enough to drink a lake.

• I was feeling lower than a snake's belly.

• God grant me the gift of gab!

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

What are the following examples of?

SPLAT, GULP, POW, DRIP, POP, WHAM

• Exaggeration

• Onamotapoeia

• Hyperbole

• Poetic sound effects

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is this poem an example of?

i do not need the kind of love

that is draining

i need someone

who energizes me

-- Rupi Kaur

• Imagery

• Enjambment

• Simile

• Alliteration

What poetic device does this definition describe?

"A figure of speech that describes a non literal similarity."

• Metaphor

• Couplet

• Alliteration

• Description

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which of the following are examples of metaphors?

• He has a heart of gold.

• After Sal had her first heart attack, she almost died.

• The world is a stage.

• My rottweiler puppy weighs 50 pounds already!

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4