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.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

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.7.4

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.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4