Poetry Literary Vocabulary - CKLA

What is a poem that has 19 lines with a specific rhyme scheme?

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

• Limerick

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allegory

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

What is a comparison that is not made directly?

• Implied metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the overall feeling or atmosphere created by a poem?

• Tone

• Theme

• Mood

• Style

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a poem that tells a story and has a plot?

• Lyric poem

• Haiku

• Narrative poem

• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art in a poem?

• Allusion

• Illusion

• Delusion

• Conclusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What do you call a four-line stanza?

• Quatrain

• Couplet

• Sestet

• Octave

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a recurring theme or idea in a poem?

• Motif

• Theme

• Symbol

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is a type of figurative language that gives human qualities to non-human things?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is the repetition of words at the start of a series of lines in a poem called?

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Epiphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4