Poetry Terms

Rows of text

• line

• stanza

• rhythm

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Groups of lines

• line

• stanza

• rhyme

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Words with the same ending sound

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repeating of words or lines in poetry

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison that does not use the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison that uses the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When human qualities are given to nonhuman things.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A reference to a person, place, event, or work of literature

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4