Poetry Unit Vocabulary

What is the term for the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem?

• rhyme scheme

• stanza

• alliteration

• meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the figure of speech in which an object is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes?

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words called?

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as called?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What do you call a group of lines in a poem or song that constitute a division (in prose: paragraph)?

• stanza

• verse

• chorus

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing (or is another thing) without the use of the words like or as?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the literary term for 'Words that create mental images, appealing to the five senses; sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste'?

• imagery

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the literary term for 'the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage'?

• mood

• theme

• plot

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is the literary term for 'something that stands for something else'?

• symbol

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

What is the literary term for 'Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern'?

• free verse

• sonnet

• limerick

• haiku

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4