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Poetry Terms

Authored by Margaret Anderson

English

6th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

Poetry Terms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

A poet writes with a certain attitude or tone and makes the reader sense a certain feeling or…

symbol

mood

imagery

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

Poets sometimes use a word to stand for another idea--like a black rose standing for death. This is called...

a metaphor

symbolism

alliteration

an allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

When a poet uses descriptive words that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and/or taste, the poet is using…

allusion

symbolism

mood

imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

This--in a poem--is like a paragraph in an essay. It is one section of the poem, set apart from other sections by a blank line.

meter

rhyme

stanza

couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

When a poem just briefly mentions a famous or well known person, place, or event, it is using the device named this.

metaphor

allusion

alliteration

imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

This is a couple of lines--usually similar lengths, with the same meter, and they often rhyme.

stanza

meter

haiku

couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

This is the attitude of the poet or writer shown through his or her word choices and techniques.

tone

mood

imagery

poetry

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

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