Poetry & Academic Vocabulary

What is a stanza in a poem?

• A single line in a poem

• A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem

• The title of a poem

• The last line of a poem

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Who is the speaker in a poem?

• The person who reads the poem aloud

• The “voice” that talks in a poem

• The author of the poem

• The audience of the poem

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is repetition in poetry?

• A technique where a poem is read multiple times

• A technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated

• A technique where the poem is written in a circle

• A technique where the poem is sung

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a rhyme scheme?

• A pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines

• A pattern of words in the middle of lines

• A pattern of sounds at the beginning of lines

• A pattern of colors in a poem

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• A figure of speech where a comparison is made between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

• A type of rhyme

• A type of stanza

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• Describing a person in detail

• Writing a poem about a person

• Comparing two people

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is hyperbole?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• A reference to a well-known person or event

• Exaggeration to create an effect

• A type of metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an allusion?

• A type of metaphor

• A reference to a well-known person, character, place, or event

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• Exaggeration to create an effect

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a simile?

• A type of metaphor

• A reference to a well-known person or event

• Exaggeration to create an effect

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A stanza is two or more lines of poetry that together form a unit of the poem.

For example, the poem above has 3 stanzas (they almost look like paragraphs)

• I GOT IT!

• I still don't understand

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4