Poetry terms

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another. (Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck)

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as in neigh/fade.

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Assonance

• Repetition

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object.

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbolism

• Personification

• The answer isn't here.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as “hiss,” “buzz,” “slam,” and “boom.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Rhyme Scheme

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines, such as ababbcc.

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

 A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities. For example, “The sky looked like an artist’s canvas.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This is an example of: 
He was a Romeo with the ladies. 

• Allusion
• Oxymoron
• Similie
• Pun

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning."

• Metaphor
• Irony
• Symbolism
• Anaphora

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

To everyone's surprise, the firehouse burned to the ground.

• Irony

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the haiku syllable pattern?

• 5, 5, 5

• 5, 7, 5

• 5, 7, 7

• 1, 2, 3

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9