Poetry

the repetition of initial consonant sounds. Ex: On the bald street breaks the blank day.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a reference to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history or literature used to suggest an emotion or idea. Ex: an allusion to the Garden of Eden might suggest a notion of paradise or a time of purity and innocence. (Allusion is different from illusion, which is a deception or erroneous perception of reality.)

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Consonance

• Couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

the repetition, at close intervals, of vowel sounds.

• Couplet

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form

• End Rhyme

• Ballad

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

the repetition, at close intervals, of consonant sounds found within or at the end of words.

• Figurative Language

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

2-line stanza, which may or may not rhyme.

• Couplet

• End Rhyme

• Ballad

• Fixed Form

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

rhyme that comes at the end of lines. Ex. “It runs and it creeps/ For awhile, till it sleeps”

• Lyric

• Free Verse

• Eye Rhyme

• End Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

words that look alike but do not sound alike. Ex: bough, cough; brow, blow.

• Eye Rhyme

• Free Verse

• Lyric

• Internal Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

words that are literally inaccurate but are used to describe or define something. Usually this language makes use of metaphors or similes to compare and equate something to another

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Free Verse

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

poetry that is categorized by its patterns of lines, meter, rhymes and stanzas. Examples of fixed forms include the sonnet, ballad and villanelle.

• Fixed Form

• Free Verse

• Internal Rhyme

• Lyric

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10