Poetic Terms

___________ is words that focus on the five senses.

• imagery

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which is the following an example of:

"I'm as big as the earth."

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The image shows examples of...

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Why is this an example of assonance?

• It's the repetition of vowels in the middle of words.

• It's the repeating of color in the middle of words.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Why is this poem an ODE?

• It's a lyrical poem meant to address a specific subject

• It's a lyrical poem meant to address many subjects.

• It's another kind of haiku.

"I walked as lonely as a cloud."

What is the above an example of?

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A stanza is to poetry what a ________________ is to prose.

• hyperbole

• paragraph

• ode

• assonance

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Neil kneels near the new napkins."

The above is an example of....

• alliteration

• personification

• imagery

• stanza

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A ________________ is a fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme.

• ode

• haiku

• sonnet

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Read the following to determine what kind of poem it is"

A world of dew,

And within every dewdrop

A world of struggle.

• metaphor

• personification

• haiku

• sonnet

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D