Poetry Terms 25-26

The distance between the left and right edges of a line in poetry

• line length

• white space

• indentation

• line break

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

when one stanza ends and another begins

• line break

• stanza break

• indentation

• white space

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

the end of one line of poetry, and the beginning of a new line

• line length

• white space

• line break

• stanza break

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

blankness or emptiness to visually create an aesthetic;

creates lack of sound or changes the sound

• white space

• line break

• blank page

• stanza break

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

when a poet moves the text away from the left-hand margin

to complicate traditional line breaks

• line length

• indentation

• line break

• stanza break

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

the pattern of rhyming lines;

named using the letters of the alphabet (for example, AABBAABB)

• slant rhyme

• internal rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• end rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

the rhyming of the words at the end of the line;

words with the same ending sounds

• rhyme scheme

• slant rhyme

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

the rhyming of two words inside the same line of poetry

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

words that sound alike or similar but not exactly the same

• rhyme scheme

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables creates the rhythm of lines of poetry

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5