CKLA Unit 3 Poetry Terms

Front

What are words or sentences spoken by a character in a poem, play, or story?

Back

dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Front

What is a small part of a larger work?

Back

excerpt

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Front

What is a line?

Back

the basic unit of a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

Front

What is a stanza?

Back

a group of lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

Front

What is a stanza break?

Back

the blank space dividing two stanzas from each other

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.5

Front

What is alliteration?

Back

the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

Front

What is repetition?

Back

repeating something over and over again

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Front

Slant rhyme

Back

words that share only the final consonant sound; not a true rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Front

What is a free verse poem?

Back

a poem with no rhyme scheme or set pattern of beats

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Front

What is first person point of view?

Back

the speaker or narrator tells the story from their own perspective

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.8.6