Poetry Vocab Quiz

Poetry

• Areas on a page with no text or graphics; designed to provide a visual break and to give other elements on the page a greater impact; also known as negative space

• Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination.

• A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

Alliteration

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• A comparison not using like or as

• A writer's or speaker's choice of words

   

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

Metaphor

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• The internal organization of a poem's content

• A comparison not using like or as

• A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Simile

• Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines

• Where a line of poetry ends

• Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Imagery

• Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

• Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• A writer's or speaker's choice of words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Personification

• A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• A comparison not using like or as

• The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next

• Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

White Space

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Areas on a page with no text or graphics; designed to provide a visual break and to give other elements on the page a greater impact; also known as negative space

• A writer's or speaker's choice of words

• Language that has a metrical rhythm (or beat). Often, it also has rhyme (meter, rhyme)

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Repetition

• Extended metaphor

• The internal organization of a poem's content

• Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Mood

• Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

   

• A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract

• Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

Tone

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Any writing that is not poetry

• Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

• Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4