Features of Poetry

A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity

• Theme

• Imagery

• Rhythm

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words; impart a musical quality to a text

• Rhyme Scheme

• Sestet

• Alliteration

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A group of lines that form a unit of a poem

• Sonnet

• Stanza

• Simile

• Sestet

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Descriptive words and phrases used to re-create sensory experiences

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A figure of speech that compares two things without the use of like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Octave

• Author's Choice

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Identify the figurative language:
I felt like a fish out of water.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the figurative language:
Her hair was a bird's nest of tangled locks.

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor 
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Identify the figurative language:
The wind whistled through the trees.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

When a sentence in a poem flows on to the next line in a poem it is called...

• Enjambment

• Stanza

• Line

• Caesura

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Also known as "vowel rhyme," is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.

• Consonance

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4