Poetry Questions - Review

A literary device used in poetry, novels, and other writing that uses vivid description that appeals to a reader's senses to create an image or idea in their head.

• Imagery

• Mood

• Tone

• Verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The beat and pace of a poem and is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• Free Verse

• Imagery

• Rhythm

• Ballad

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem. They look like little paragraphs.

• Tone

• Verse

• Stanza

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Characters, settings, images, or other things that stand in for bigger ideas beyond their literal meaning.

• Diction

• Symbol

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, poem, or other literary work. It's the lesson or moral of the story.

• Meter

• Diction

• Assonance

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Someone who is the voice of the poem. This is not to be confused with the author.

• Assonance

• Ballad

• Enjambment

• Speaker

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Refers to the attitude of a writer toward a subject that they are writing about.

• Mood

• Tone

• Consonance

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An obvious and deliberate exaggeration (to emphasize something or for humorous purposes).

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Assigning human qualities to something that is not human.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Free Verse

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9