Poetry Terms

the person narrating the poem

• narrator

• speaker

• first person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

part of a word that makes on sound; words can have one or multiple of these

• consonant

• syllable

• vowel

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

a group of lines in a poem

• stanza

• paragraph

• grouping

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

the rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• syllable

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

the overall pattern a poem follows to make a particular type of peom

• meter

• rhythm

• form

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

pattern of end rhymes, expressed using letters

• rhyme scheme

• meter

• rhymthm

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4