Literary Terms and Devices

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What are patterns of sound that occur within and between words that create rhythm or effect?

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Sound Devices

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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What is a set of 2 lines in poetry called?

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Couplet

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CCSS.RL.7.4

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What are phrases that are not meant to be taken literally but are used for creative or rhetorical meaning?

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Figurative Language

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

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What are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?

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Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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What do you call a group of words arranged into a row?

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Line

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CCSS.RL.7.4

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What is the term for a repeated sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase?

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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

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What is a four-line stanza in poetry called?

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Quatrain

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CCSS.RL.7.4

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What is a three-line stanza in poetry called?

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Tercet

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CCSS.RL.7.4

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What is a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

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Simile

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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What is a figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'?

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Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D