Poetry Terms

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another. (Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck)

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as in neigh/fade.

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Assonance

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what was expected.

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A  figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; for example, “my love is a fragile flower.”

• Simile

• Symbolism

• Rhyme Scheme

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object.

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbolism

• Personification

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Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as “hiss,” “buzz,” “slam,” and “boom.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Repeating sounds, words, phrases, lines, or even entire stanzas. Used as a sound device to underscore the meaning of certain words, to enhance rhythm, or add to the musical quality of the work. (“O, my love is like a red, red rose,…And fare thee well, my only love, and fare thee well a while!”)

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Repeating

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, especially. at the ends of lines

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Symbolism

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines, such as ababbcc.

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

 A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities. For example, “The sky looked like an artist’s canvas.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D