Poetry Vocabulary 4th Grade

words that make unusual comparisons or compare unexpected

events

• Figurative Language

• Poem

• alphabet

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

a humorous five-line poem that follows a specific form

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Cartoon

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

a pattern of beats made by stressed and unstressed

syllables in the lines of a poem

• poem

• rhythm

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

giving human characteristics to objects

• stanza

• concrete poem

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

a group of lines in which poetry is written

• stanza

• sentences

• paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

a poem that is shaped to look like its subject

• limerick

• Concrete Poetry

• haiku

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

a three-lined Japanese poem

• personification

• limerick

• haiku

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

a poem that tells a story

• Limerick

• Narrative Poem

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

the use of a word or phrase to imitate sound

• onomatopoeia

• echo

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

a direct comparison of two seemingly unlike things using

"like" or "as"

• simile

• haiku

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4