Poetry Terms
poetry paragraphs
A stanza
A comparison using like or as
simile
What the text is mostly about
main idea
to make a good "guess" or "statement" based on your background knowledge and evidence from the text
infer
How did Pam Munoz Ryan title each chapter in Esperanza Rising
With food names (usually crops)
Words in a row, sometimes numbered
line
A sound word
onomatopoeia
The words you are reading
TEXT
something that makes something happen
cause
The river between Miguel and Esperanza
The zig zags on the blanket
Papa's roses
The worker described at kittens
are all examples of ____________
METAPHORS
who is talking in the poem
speaker
Giving human traits to non-human things:
The wind whistled
Personification
words from the text that proves your thinking
evidence
a short, organized statement (paragraph) about the main points of the text.
summary
Meg Lowman was a ___________ scientist
Rainforest
The "beat" of the poem
Rhythm
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of an
alliteration
determine
Something you can PROVE
Meg Lowman preserved plants by _________ them in between paper.
PRESSING
Is beside me
What does this show?
End Rhyme
An extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
parts of a text that are not the main body (captions, photos, headings, maps, diagrams, etc.)
text features
The message or lesson of a story
THEME
Jackie Robinson's daughter's name is ______
Sharon