Poetry Vocabulary Terms

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more nearby words. 

• assonance
• consonance
• alliteration
• meter

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of vowel sounds in words, such as in stone and slow.

• assonance
• consonance
• alliteration
• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of consonant sounds either within or at the ends of words, as in the phrase wide muddy field.

• assonance
• consonance
• alliteration
• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The unique way something is written - not what is said but how it's said  (word choice, sentence structures, and use of imagery).

• form
• distinctive style
• meter
• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

Creative comparisons that are not literally true.

• Poetry
• Imagery
• Free verse
• Figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Refers to the way a poem is laid out on the page. Poetry is divided into lines and stanzas.

• Meter
• Form
• Stanza
• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Poems that have no recognizable patterns or rules. Their lines do not rhyme in any regular way and might not even be similar lengths.

• Traditional
• Free Verse
• Non-rhyme poetry
• Prose

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Language that helps a reader recreate, in his or her own mind, what the writer is describing. Poets use this to give their poems meaning and to tap into different emotions. 

• Rhythm
• Rhyme scheme
• Imagery
• Sound devices

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A regular  pattern of rhythm (created by arranging words to form patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables).

• meter
• rhythm
• rhyme scheme
• sound devices

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The use of words whose sounds echo their meanings (buzz, gargle, hiss, thump).

• simile
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5