Figurative Language and Poetry Terms Review

Group of lines in a poem

• Stanza

• Paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

Imaginary voice the poet uses when writing a poem

• speaker

• poet

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.6

Emotions and ideas associated with a word; can be positive, negative, or neutral

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Writer of a poem

• speaker

• poet

Something that stands for or represents something else

• Imagery

• Symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Literal or dictionary definition of a word

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.7.5C

Giving human or living qualities to nonhuman or nonliving things

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Language not meant to be taken literally

• imagery

• figurative

• literal

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Exaggeration used for emphasis

• Hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4