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Poetry Terms

Authored by Jessica Webster

English

10th Grade

CCSS covered

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Poetry Terms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.

Ex. A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm.

alliteration

allusion

consonance

assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

Symbol

Metaphor

Ballad

Verse

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.

Free Verse

Meter

Stanza

Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.

Ex. If this were a poem,

this would be

an example of the technique.

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia

Rhyme

Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Ex. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life."

Onomatopoeia

Consonance

Assonance

Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A single line of poetry.

Stanza

Verse

Ballad

Meter

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two tings without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as".

Ex. Love is a battlefield.

Simile

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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