Poetry Terms to Know and Love

The repetition of the beginning consonant sound over multiple words.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

A quick reference to a person, work, or event outside of the piece. The reader is expected to make the connection.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

It felt like it was a thousand degrees out last Sunday.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The use of highly descriptive language which is meant to appeal to the reader’s senses. It creates a mental image or feeling.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

A commonly used phrase or expression where the actual meaning is very different from the literal meaning. 

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A word that mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A quick reference to a person, work, or event outside of the piece. The reader is expected to make the connection.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A comparison giving human-like characteristics to a nonhuman or nonliving object.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Line Break

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4