Academic Vocabulary for Poetry

a literary device that reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work

• tone

• speaker

• context

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

the skills and techniques that an author uses to tell a story or create a piece of writing

• imagery

• author's craft

• effect

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Sentences or phrases, constructed in a way that alludes to something without directly stating it.

• figurative language

• imagery

• effect

• author's craft

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work

• theme

• effect

• mood

• author's craft

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

• stanzas

• message

• context

• conclude

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

A single row of words that ends at the right

• lines

• stanzas

• message

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

In poetry, the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud.

• author's craft

• speaker

• author's purpose

• message

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

A frame of reference from which to build comprehension

• imagery

• context

• simile

• conclude

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the reason for or intent in writing

• author's craft

• author's purpose

• theme

• structure

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

As a literary device, ____ refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story

• mood

• context

• convey

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D