Poetry Vocab

Definition for Rhyme

• Sound words

• words that end in the same sound

• the pattern of rhymes

Definition for Theme

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• the pattern of rhymes

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

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CCSS.RL.4.2

Definition for Repetition

• a comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

• to repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem

• the musical quality of a poem

Definition for Stanza

• a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains: a group of lines

• the pattern of rhymes

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

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CCSS.RL.4.5

It was July, and the sun

toasted the emerald grass

until it smelled of warmth

and green and life.

It was July, and my heart

soaked up the air warmth

until it sang of joy

and love and life.

How many lines in the poem above?

• This poem has 1 line

• This poem has 2 lines

• This poem has 4 lines

• This poem has 8 lines

It was July, and the sun

toasted the emerald grass

until it smelled of warmth

and green and life.

It was July, and my heart

soaked up the air warmth

until it sang of joy

and love and life.

How many stanzas in the poem above?

• This poem has 1 stanza

• This poem has 2 stanzas

• This poem has 4 stanzas

• This poem has 8 stanzas

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Definition for Mood

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

• the musical quality of a poem

• the attitude or feeling the author creates

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

is called

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.4.5

________ means groups of lines, set off by a space?

• meter
• stanzas
• rhyme
• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.4.5

_________ means the rhythm of the syllables in a line of poetry? 

• stanzas
• imagery
• meter
• simile

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CCSS.RL.4.5