Langston Hughes

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Rhyme

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B C D E F G
• AA BB CC DD
• A B C B A B C D
• A B A B C D C D

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B A B C D A D
• No rhyme scheme
• A A B B C C
•  LMNOP

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Rhyme scheme?

• A B C D
• A B A B A B A
• A A B B C C
• A B C

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Alliteration

• a repetition of initial, or beginning, sounds in two or more consecutive words
• comparing two objects that are not the same by using like or as
• when a poet uses a person, place, things, or event to represent something else
• AABB; or the patter within a poem

Repetition

• words in a poem that are repeated to make a patter
• a repetition of initial sounds in two or more consecutive words
• assonance
•  an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that would be considered offensive

Metaphor

• a comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
• comparing two things using "like" or "as"
• exaggeration  used to emphasize a point
• the use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes