16 Poetry Terms

What is the imaginary voice or character telling the poem?

• Simile

• Speaker

• Stanza

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison between two unlike things?

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What states that one thing is something else? Example: Life is a highway.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What uses exaggeration to stress a point? Example: We waited in line forever.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What gives nonhuman things human characteristics? Example: The waves dance along the shore.

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What gives a character, place, or object a deeper meaning? Example: The color white represents purity.

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the regular pattern of rhyming words? Example: AABBCCDD

• Couplet

• Enjambment

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the repetition of consonant sounds in words? Example: Talia tutored Tiffany twice.

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Assonance

• Couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a unit of lines in a poem?

• Couplet

• End-stop

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words? Example: Iris irons irregularly.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Couplet

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4