Poetry Vocabulary

In ___________________poems, the first letter of each line spells out a word or saying.

• "Who Am I?"

• acrostic

• free verse

• cinquain

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

This type of poem is more picture than poem. ________________ poems are pictures in words.

• Shape

• Diamante

• Alphabet

• Syllable

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

• stanza

• haiku

• rhythm

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

patterns / similarities in final sounds of two or more lines

• rhyme

• rhythm

• refrain

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a piece of poetry

• stanza

• verse

• refrain

• epic

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a stanza with two lines of verse

• free verse

• couplet

• epic

• refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

• meter

• lyric

• sonnet

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

a figure of speech comparing two things using “like” or “as”

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

• elegy

• stanza

• verse

• epic

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D