Poetry Terms Study Guide 4th grade

Match the following poetry terms to their definitions.

• personification

• giving human characteristics to an object that is not human

• assonance

• comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• sound device used to repeat the same vowel sounds in nearby words

• simile

• sound device used to repeat the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words

• alliteration

• comparison of two things without using like or as but one item IS something else

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Match.

• sensory language

• main message, lesson or moral of a text

• first person point of view

• using your senses to create pictures in your mind as you read

• theme

• appeals to the five senses

• stanza

• group of lines within a poem

• visualize

• narrator that is part of the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

Match the term to their definition.

• rythmn

• figure of speech that is an extreme exaggeration for effect

• hyperbole

• what the story or passage is mostly about

• imagery

• regular beat in music, poetry or dance

• central idea

• words that create images in a reader's mind

• Onomatopoeia

• word that imitates the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Narrator or speaker that is OUTSIDE of the story

• first person point of view

• second person point of view

• third person point of view

• poet

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the name of word that correctly identifies where each line of text ends?

• line break

• stanza

• scene

• act

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

BAM! POW! CRASH!

What kind of figurative language are these examples of?

• imagery

• onomatopoia

• rhyme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

"I am so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of what kind of figurative language?

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A simile is...

• a comparison using like or as

• a comparison NOT using like or as

• the main events of the story

• using an object to represent something else

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What is a metaphor?

• where and when a story takes place

• a comparison using like or as

• giving human qualities to something nonhuman

• a comparison NOT using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Life is a box of chocolates.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5