FREE Poetry Terminology Fact Cards & Cheat Sheets
Published:
February 5, 2020
Contributor:
Bonnie Rose Hudson
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Poetry can be beautiful to study, but one way to appreciate it even more is to understand how it works. By learning key terms and definitions, students are better prepared to recognize elements in poetry and understand how they work together to create a finished product. These FREE Poetry Terminology Fact Cards & Cheat Sheets are a perfect tool to get them started!
Poetry Terminology Fact Cards
We’ve likely heard the words ballad, haiku, free verse, and ode, but do your students really understand what they are? Do they understand how alliteration, assonance, consonance, and meter work in poems?
These FREE Poetry Terminology Fact Cards & Cheat Sheets are a fun way to introduce or reinforce the definitions of 22 poetry terms.
Using this poetry unit, students can learn about:
- acrostic
- alliteration
- assonance
- ballad
- cinquain
- consonance
- couplet
- diction
- epic
- free verse
- haiku
- limerick
- metaphor
- meter
- octave
- ode
- onomatopoeia
- quatrain
- rhyme
- sonnet
- stanza
- tercet
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Poetry Terminology Fact Cards and Cheat Sheets
Bonnie Rose Hudson
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