Third Grade Poetry Terms

A passage that contains artistic, vivid language and is often imaginative

• poem
• poet
• rhythm
• lines

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

A person who writes poems

• poet
• alliteration
• tone
• simile

Pattern of syllables in a line of poetry

• rhythm
• lines
• poet
• personification

The form in which poems are written

• pattern
• stanza
• lines 
• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

Matching ending sounds in words or sometimes lines of poetry

• rhyme
• lines
• simile
• free verse

A group of lines in a poem

• stanza
• pattern
• poet
• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

The words on one line of a poem

• lines
• imagery
• rhyme
• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

Pictures that are created with words

• imagery
• tone
• mood
• poet

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

How the author feels when writing the poem.

• tone
• poet
• mood
• stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

How the poem makes the reader feel.

• mood
• tone
• poet
• lines

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.RL.3.1