Poetic Devices

Her smile is a ray of sunshine.

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Simple Simon sighed after he slipped on the sidewalk.

• assonance
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The moon smiled down on us.

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

A paragraph of poetry is called a _______.

• line
• verse
• paragraph
• stanza

Words that help you imagine something via a sensory description.

• imagery
• hyperbole
• symbolism
• slant rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.3D

This one has a little car.
This one has a little star.

• alliteration
• assonance
• couplet
• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The color red represents love and white represents innocence.

• hyperbole
• rhythm
• simile
• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Never, ever, ever, ever, give up!

• rhyme
• repetition
• symbolism
• hyperbole

The beat of the poem is called ________.

• rhyme
• connotation
• rhythm
• alliteration

Her fear was a like a snake wrapping itself around her.

• imagery
• simile
• denotation
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4