English Poetry terms

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of world's in a line of poetry

• Pun

• Rhyme Scheme

• Alliteration

• Meter

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of similar vowel sounds in words that are close together in a poem

• enjambment

• apostrophe

• caesura

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a pause within poetry example: ; , .

• elegy

• conceit

• caesura

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

the running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

• ceasura

• meter

• consonance

• enjambment

Tags

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 extravagant exaggeration

• enjambment

• sarcasm

• pun

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

language that appeals to the senses

• imagery

• pun

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without helping words

• pun

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A special kind of metaphor in which a non-human thing is talked about as if it were human

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• pun

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

the pattern of rhymes in a poem

• apostrophe

• rhyme scheme

• consonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like," "as," "resembles," or "than"

• pun

• simile

• metaphor

• meter

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D