Poetry Terms

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English
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6th - 8th Grade
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Geri Freeman
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
A poet writes with a certain attitude or tone and makes the reader sense a certain feeling or…
symbol
mood
imagery
metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.3.3A
CCSS.L.4.3A
CCSS.L.5.3A
CCSS.L.6.3A
CCSS.L.6.3B
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Poets sometimes use a word to stand for another idea--like a black rose standing for death. This is called...
a metaphor
symbolism
alliteration
an allusion
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
When a poet uses descriptive words that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and/or taste, the poet is using…
allusion
symbolism
mood
imagery
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
This--in a poem--is like a paragraph in an essay. It is one section of the poem, set apart from other sections by a blank line.
meter
rhyme
stanza
couplet
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
A poem that is meant to honor something of value to the writer--to give praise to it--we call it...
a haiku
a cinquain
a couplet
an ode
Tags
CCSS.L.7.6
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.W.6.2D
CCSS.W.7.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
When a poem is used to describe something, especially artwork, it is described as this...
ekphrastic
imagery
ode
symbolism
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
When a poem just briefly mentions a famous or well known person, place, or event, it is using the device named this.
metaphor
allusion
alliteration
imagery
Tags
CCSS.L.7.5A
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
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