Poetry Terms Review

Writing with language chosen & arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm is

• Magazine

• Poetry

• Newspaper article

• Novel

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

A form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well.

• Narrative

• Lyric

• Epic

• Stoic

Answer explanation

Link together narrative/narrator/story to remember this one!

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person

• Narrative

• Lyric

• Epic

• Stoic

Answer explanation

Remember: music has lyrics & music often brings about emotion!

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A lengthy poem about the extraordinary adventures of extraordinary men & women.

• Narrative

• Lyric

• Epic

• Stoic

Answer explanation

Remember EPIC means big, grand...and epic poems are LOOOOOONG!!

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What rhymes in this stanza?

Nothin' to say

When everything gets in the way

Seems you cannot be replaced

And I'm the one who will stay, oh-oh-oh

• Nothin/cannot

• Seems/who

• Gets/will

• Say/way

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What's the internal rhyme in this stanza?

Nothing compares, no worries or cares

Regrets and mistakes, they're memories made

Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

• Known/taste

• Cares/made

• Compares/cares

• Bittersweet/taste

Answer explanation

Remember: internal rhyme needs to include a word toward the middle of a line that rhymes with either a word at the end of the line OR another middle-line word!

Close and ghost are an example of:

So if I can't get close to you

I'll settle for the ghost of you

• Slant rhyme

• End rhyme

• Internal rhyme

• Both slant & internal rhyme

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Solo

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than

the right-hand margin.

• Quartet

• Stanza

• Line

• Haiku

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The main building block of a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose writing.

• Quartet

• Stanza

• Line

• Haiku

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5