Unit 4 Vocabulary

What is a simile?

• a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

• a type of poem in which two things are compared

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"

• A comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

• A type of poem in which two things are compared

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a hyperbole?

• A comparison using "like" or "as".

• A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.

• An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally.

• an expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A sonnet has how many lines?

• 10
• 12
• 14
• 16

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

What is the use of words that imitate sounds? (Crash, bang, hiss, splat)

• Sensory Language 
• Hyperbole 
• Figurative Language 
• Onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space, is called a ________.

• stanza
• refrain
• ballad
• chorus

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?

• stanza

• onomatopoeia

• optical illusion

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

What is personification?

• A person emphasizing something in a poem.

• An object or animal taking on human characteristics.

• A type of poem that tells about a person's life.

• A type of poetry that uses metaphors to describe a person.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

A poem that has a plot, characters, and tells a story is called...

• free verse

• humorous

• narrative poem

• lyric poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

The order/pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

• internal rhyme

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10