Poetry Vocabulary Review

What is alliteration?

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• Repetition of vowel sounds

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a simile?

• to place side by side for comparison.

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• the use of words that imitate sounds

• A comparison without using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• word choice

• A comparison without using like or as

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• the implied or associative meaning of a word (+ or -)

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is "the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form?"

• Personality

• Personification

• Personhood

• Personable

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Onomatopoeia is...

• Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.

• The use of words that imitate sounds

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a "description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)"?

• Assonance

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is Assonance?

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• The dictionary definition of a word

• Word choice

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which word means "to place side by side for comparison?"

• Theme

• Tone

• Juxtapose

• Line Break

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is theme?

• A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

• Underlying message of the piece of literature

• The implied or associative meaning of a word (+ or -)

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

This term is "where a line of poetry ends"

• Diction

• Line Break

• Rhyme

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9