Poetry Types & Terms

A figure of speech that references a historical or literary event.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomotopoeia

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

A poem with seventeen syllables in three lines

• Tone

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

A poem of fourteen lines

• Tone

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

A poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem

• Sonnet

• Rhyme Scheme

• Diction

• Enjambment

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

A poetic form which has no identifiable patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and meter

• Free verse

• Rhyme scheme

• Sonnet

• Haiku

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis

• Metaphor

• Monologue

• Foil

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

At the end of "Miniver Cheevy," we learn that he is ____________.

• Alive

• Dead

• Singing

• Drunk

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CCSS.L.8.5A

"Oh Captain! My Captain!" Is about the death of ______________________.

• Walt Whitman

• Abraham Lincoln

• Miniver Cheevy

• William Shakespeare

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

According to the poem "O Me! O Life!" the good thing is that life "__________" and you can "contribute a verse.

• sings

• rhymes

• ended

• exists

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

Emily Dickinson compares hope to a _______________.

• Cat

• Bird

• Frog

• Poet

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4