Poetry Vocab

The "big idea" or what the author is trying to tell the reader.

• Authors Message

• Authors Purpose

• Infer

• Character interactions

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Persuade, Inform, and entertain

• authors message

• authors purpose

• Stanza

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Conclusion of the stories plot.

• Resolution

• Character interactions

• Conflict

• Explain

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Comparing things using like or as

• simile

• Conflict

• explain

• line

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

A challenge with a way a person thinks or behaves.

• Character interactions

• conflict

• Text evidence

• infer

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

When a writer uses very descripted language sometimes figurative language.

• imagery

• describe

• infer

• explain

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

To make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it.

• Explain

• Character interaction

• Imagery

• Text evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

Ways in which the characters of a story interact with eachother.

• Character interactions

• Explain

• Authors Message

• Authors purpose

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

A piece of information from a text that we use to support ideas, beliefs, opinions, and arguments.

• Text evidence

• Describe

• Authors message

• infer

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

A sentence in a poem

• stanza

• line

• simile

• describe

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4