4th Grade STAAR Poetry/ Drama Vocabulary

The individual segments of text in a poem that are numbered by 5s.

• Line

• Speaker

• Personification

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

The text the actors are supposed to say out loud in a drama.

• Playwright

• Dialogue

• Scene

• Drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

Larger sections of text in a poem, similar to paragraphs.

• Idiom

• Speaker

• Stanzas

• Hyperpole

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Instructions for the actors that tell them where to go or how to say a line.

• Cast of Characters

• Narrator

• Act

• Stage Directions

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

When two or more words end in the same sound. Ex: ring and ding

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

Smaller sections of a drama divided by a change in the setting.

• Drama

• Scene

• Script

• Character tags

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A text that is meant to be read out loud, organized by stanzas and line.

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Poem

• Drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Large sections of a drama usually divided by the climax of the text.

• Props

• Dialogue

• Playwrite

• Acts

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

When a poet uses figurative and sensory language to create a picture in the readers mind.

• Imagery

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

• Poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Time and place of a text.

• Script

• Setting

• Narrator

• Stage Directions

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.5