Poetic Terms

Stanza:

• The title of the poem

• The subject of the poem

• A group of lines in a poem

• How many lines there are in the poem

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Repetition:

• A word is repeated in a line/stanza

• The first letter of a word is repeated

• A vowel sound in the middle of words is repeated

• The ends of multiple words have the same sound

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

To infer means to:

• to draw your own conclusion about something

• to say no

• to say yes

• to be a critic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Giving human attributes to nonhuman objects.

• personification

• alliteration

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

This is created by having the same number of syllables following the same pattern.

• meter

• rhyme

• imagery

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

My fingers are worn to the bone from writing so much.

• allusion

• hyperbole

• assonance

• caesura

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

words having the same beginning consonant sounds

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• assonance

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

a pair or rhymed lines

• stanza

• idiom

• couplet

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

exaggeration; when the author stretched the truth

• hyperbole

• consonance

• couplet

• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

words used to evoke a sensory experience, including sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste

• imagery

• irony

• personification

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5