Literary Devices Used in Poetry

A word that sounds like the noise it describes

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

An exaggerated statement

• rhyme
• metaphor
• alliteration
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Describes something non-human with human qualities

• Internal Rhyme
• Simile
• Personification
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

When two or more words create a rhyme in the same line of a poem or verse

• Internal Rhyme
• Simile
• Allusion
• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparing using like or as

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Repeats the beginning consonant sounds in words

• rhyme
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A poem in which the ends of the lines have words that sound the same 

• rhyme
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

A reference that is made indirectly, subtly suggested, or implied to somebody or something, using only a word or two

• alliteration
• allusion
• acrostic
• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Compares two different things saying the one is the other--does not use like or as to compare

• alliteration
• rhyme
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The repetition of two or more of the same vowel sounds in a word 

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3