poetry terms

A group of lines in a poem is called

• mataphore

• couplet

• stanza

• book

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

The message, or lesson the writer wants us to learn is called

• detail

• main idea

• theme

• fable

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Which of the following compares two things using like or as?

• metaphor

• simile

• theme

• repetition

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

"You are my sunshine" is an example of

• Onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An example of personification is

• Your eyes are bright like diamonds.

• You're as pretty as a picture.

• He is as cold as ice.

• The Texas pine tree stood tall and proud.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A literary device that refers to the 5 senses is

• hyperbole

• poetry

• alliteration

• imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• rhythm

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A theme is

• a message the author wants us to know

• a poem that rhymes.

• a type of figurative language

• usually just for one person

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

A story can have more than one theme?

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

A stanza can have different numbers of lines.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.4