Poetry Terms

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What does the sentence below actually mean?

Lightning danced across the sky.

• The lightning was at a dance party.

• There was no lightning in the sky.

• There was a lot of lightning in the sky during a storm.

• The lightning was bad at dancing.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Enjambment

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Extreme exaggeration; can't possibly be true

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Caesura

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Words that appeal to or evoke the senses

• Imagery

• Parallel Structure

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the following an example of?
The sun smiled down on me as I walked home from school.

• Personification

• Stanza

• Oxymoron

• Parallel Structure

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The way lines rhyme in a stanza of poetry, like ababcc

• Rhythm

• Rhyme Scheme

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A pause in the middle of a line of poetry

• Caesura

• Consonance

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Repetition of vowel sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of consonant sounds within a word

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Paradox

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4