poetry unit

What is a stanza?

• the beat of the poem

• lines grouped together like a paragraph

• when words are used to make sounds

• something that represents something else

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is alliteration?

• a series of words that start with the same sound

• when words are used to make pictures in your mind

• when words or phrases repeat

• when words are used to make sounds

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is personification?

• the line of text breaks

• when words have the same ending sound, usually at the end of lines in the poem

• when words are used to make pictures in your mind

• giving human qualities to animals or objects

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

A word's dictionary definition

• connotation

• denotation

A personal definition of a word

• connotation

• denotation

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

What is the theme of a poem?

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the meter of a poem?

• lines grouped together, like a paragraph

• when words are used to make pictures in your mind

• a series of words that start with the same sound

• a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

What is the rhythm of a poem?

• a series of stressed and unstressed syllables

• when words have the same ending sound, especially at the end of the line

• the beat of the poem

• when words or phrases are repeated in a powm

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.10