Poetry Terms

A reference made to another work or historical event

• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• Allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two unlike things

• simile
• personification
• consonance
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech that does not use like or as to compare two unlike things

• personification
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The repetition of consonant sounds, generally at the beginnings of words

• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics

• hyperbole
• analogy
• imagery
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration

• hyperbole
• personification
• imagery
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Descriptive language that appeals to one of the five senses

• onomatopoeia
• imagery
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes

• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• consonance
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of a poem to the next, without a pause or punctuation

• rhyme scheme
• quatrain
• enjambment
• sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem

• quatrain
• stanza
• enjambment
• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9