Introduction to Poetry / Vocabulary

written lines grouped together in a poem

• simile

• speaker

• stanza

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

the pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• hyperbole

• rhyme scheme

• alliteration

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• metaphor

• rhyme scheme

• assonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

appeals to the reader’s five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch)

• rhyme

• imagery

• speaker

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• rhyme

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a tomb where someone is buried

• covet

• bore

• sepulchre

• seraph

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

a direct comparison of two things

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem

• speaker

• idiom

• stanza

• form / structure

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

when a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis

• speaker

• idiom

• repetition

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a young, unmarried female

• seraph

• bore

• covet

• maiden

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4