Poetry Terms

The most specific or literal meaning of a word

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a second, suggested meaning of a word, consisting of the suggestions, associations, and emotional overtones attached

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• symbolism

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Compares two unlike things by speaking of one thing as if it were another

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When nonhumans (animals, objects) are represented as being human or as having human attributes

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Overstatement; extreme exaggeration for the purpose of making a point

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Use of an object, person, place, or event that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger

• personification

• symbolism

• hyperbole

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A metaphor carried throughout the text

• allusion

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An implied or indirect reference to something the reader should recognize

• symbolism

• extended metaphor

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song, similar to paragraph in prose

• refrain

• stanza

• allusion

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5