Poetry Terms

a unit of poetry that is like a paragraph

• verse

• meter

• stanza

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

unrhymed lines of poetry

• meter

• alliteration

• rhythm

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

poetry free of any restrictions; poetry not tied to a particular pattern

• free verse

• figurative language

• thyme

• haiku

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

language that communicates beyond the literal meaning of the words

• figurative language

• rhythm

• rhyme

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

giving an animal or inanimate object human qualities or emotions

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• meter

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

using extreme exaggeration to make a point

• hyperbole

• connotation

• simile

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

a direct comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

concrete details which appeal to the senses so that we can see or sense what is being written about

• imagery

• personification

• alliteration

• ballad

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

the attitudes and feelings associated with a word

• connotation

• denotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5C