Poetry Terms

A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination.

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Informational text

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

A group of lines in a poem

• Lines

• Stanza

• Figurative language

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Groups of words in a poem

• poem

• simile

• Line

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

the narrator of a poem (character/person telling the poem; not always the author).

• speaker

• POV

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

• hyperbole

• meter

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

the pattern of rhyme in a poem

• personification

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

 rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas that tells a story and is meant to be sung. 

• ballad

• haiku

• limerick

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

• rhyme

• refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4