Poetry - Literary Devices

Front

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Where’s the peck?

Back

Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Fresh fried fish, Fish fresh fried, Fried fish fresh, Fish fried fresh.

Back

Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, had a great fall. All the King’s horses and men couldn’t put him together again.

Back

rhyme

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

“Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle,
Underneath the western skies,
On my cayuse let me wander over yonder,
‘Til I see the mountains rise.”

Back

Rhyme

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Young lady of station loves a man; men say, 'You flatter.' She replies, 'Isle of Man is the true explanation.'

Back

Limerick

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Front

Old Man with a beard: Two Owls, a Hen, Four Larks, a Wren built nests in my beard.

Back

Limerick

Front

Poem: "Come slowly, Eden..."

Back

Free Verse

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

A rabble of filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the poor shall inherit the earth.

Back

Free Verse

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Front

And let me the canakin clink, clink; A soldier’s a man; A life’s but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink.

Back

Limerick

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Bed Bath & Beyond

Back

Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4