Poetry Terms

A group of related lines in a poem

• Stanza

• Lines

• Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant, in a phrase or line of poetry (She sells seashells by the seashore)

• Methaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An expression of ideas or feeling in words, usually having a form, rhythm, and rhyme.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Poetry

• Ballad

The comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as.

• Stanza

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Two or more lines that end with rhyming words.

• Rhyme

• Imagery

• Haiku

• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The author's use of description and words to create pictures in the reader's mind.

• Repetition

• Personification

• Imagery

• Limerick

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A sound device in which a word makes the sound.

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The comparison of two unlike things that doe not use like or as.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A sound device in which sounds, words, or phrases are repeated to emphasize a point.

• Rhyming words

• Sonnet

• Cinquain

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Giving human qualities and ideas to non human things (objects, animals).

• Personificiation

• Diamante

• Limerick

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D