Poetry Vocabulary

Alliteration

• Creates a picture in the reader's mind

• A comparison of

  two different

  things. Doesn’t use

  like or as.

• The repetition of

  the beginning

  consonant sounds in

  words

• Sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

Imagery

• Creates a picture in the reader's mind

• A comparison of

  two different

  things. Doesn’t use

  like or as.

• The repetition of

  the beginning

  consonant sounds in

  words

• Sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Metaphor

• Creates a picture in the reader's mind

• A comparison of

  two different

  things. Doesn’t use

  like or as.

• The repetition of

  the beginning

  consonant sounds in

  words

• Sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Onomatopoeia

• Creates a picture in the reader's mind

• A comparison of

  two different

  things. Doesn’t use

  like or as.

• The repetition of

  the beginning

  consonant sounds in

  words

• Sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Meter

• Words that end in

  the same sound,

  end rhyme

• To repeat sounds,

  words, phrases, or

  whole lines in a poem

• Giving things that

  are not human, the

  personalities or

  actions of humans

• A rhythmic pattern

  in poetry that is

  usually repeated.

Repetition

• Words that end in

  the same sound,

  end rhyme

• To repeat sounds,

  words, phrases, or

  whole lines in a poem

• Giving things that

  are not human, the

  personalities or

  actions of humans

• A rhythmic pattern

  in poetry that is

  usually repeated.

Personification

• Words that end in

  the same sound,

  end rhyme

• To repeat sounds,

  words, phrases, or

  whole lines in a poem

• Giving things that

  are not human, the

  personalities or

  actions of humans

• A rhythmic pattern

  in poetry that is

  usually repeated.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Rhyme

• Words that end in

  the same sound,

  end rhyme

• To repeat sounds,

  words, phrases, or

  whole lines in a poem

• Giving things that

  are not human, the

  personalities or

  actions of humans

• A rhythmic pattern

  in poetry that is

  usually repeated.

Rhyme

Scheme

• The pattern of

  rhymes

• The musical

  quality of a poem.

• A comparison of

  two unlike things

  using like or as

• A division in a poem

  named for the

  number of lines it

  contains

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.4

Rhythm

• The pattern of

  rhymes

• The musical

  quality of a poem.

• A comparison of

  two unlike things

  using like or as

• A division in a poem

  named for the

  number of lines it

  contains

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.4