Poetry Vocabulary

A direct comparison between two things or ideas.

• metaphor

• figurative language

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph.

• stanza

• alliteration

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A text in which the purpose is to use poetic form to explain feelings, sensory images, ideas, or stories.

• poetry

• personification

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

When words that start with the same sound are used close together in a phrase or sentence.

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Language that is not literal, usually comparing two things that do not, at first, seem to relate to each other.

• figurative language

• metaphor

• poetic devices

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The essential tools a poet uses to add a musical quality to poetry; creates rhythm, mood, and meaning.

• poetic devices

• stanza

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

An indirect comparison of two different things using "like" or "as".

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.

• imagery

• poetry

• onomatopeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Attributing human characteristics to animals, ideas.

• personification

• figurative language

• poetry

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A word that sounds like the sound is makes.

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5