Poetry Terms to Know

What is one main difference between poetry and prose (complete sentences and paragraphs)?

• words

• teach a theme

• form/structure

• figurative language

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Which of the following is NOT a sound device?

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• assonance

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Define Rhyme Scheme

• the repetition of the same or similar sounds, usually in stressed syllables at the end of lines, but sometimes with a line.

• the rhyming pattern that is created at the end of lines of poetry

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

• words that are used to represent particular sounds

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A poet refers to the Bible's Garden of Eden. This is an example of...

• symbolism

• allusion

• alliteration

• personification

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

The crUmbling thUnder of seas" is an example of...

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

The feelings or emotion the author's word choices evoke in the READER is known as...

• theme

• tone

• mood

• ethos

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When the poets use words that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, he/she/they are using

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

True/False: Poems must include rhyme.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the five senses does following poem excerpt use the most:

They silently inhale

the clover-scented gale,

And the vapors that arise

From the well-watered and smoking soil

?

• sight

• sound

• smell

• touch

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Beef" and "Streets" from Tupac's song "Dear Mama" are an example of which sound device?

When I was young me and my mama had beef

Seventeen years old kicked me out on the streets

• meter

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4