LA7 Poetry Terms

The use of a word, phrase, line, or sound more than once is

• assonance
• alliteration
• repetition
• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Language that appeals to one or more of your senses--sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch is

• imagery
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Simile or Metaphor?
This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Simile or Metaphor:
My life is a dream.

• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This line of poetry has an example of?

Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• Eye Rhyme

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

the rhyming of two words at the end of two lines in a poem

• hyperbole
• end rhyme
• idiom
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

In most traditional poetry, the rhyme is organized in patterns.

• Rhyme Scheme
• Meter
• Repetition
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of another and are not meant literally.

• Figurative Language
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

An exaggeration

• Imagery

• Free verse

• onomotopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4