Poetry Devices

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or verse is referred to as:

• Syntax

• Rhyme Scheme

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

All poems must rhyme:

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.10

Repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas and is used to emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, and/or develop a sense of urgency.

• Theme

• Irony

• Repeition

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

This is a type of repetition and parallelism when consecutive (multiple in a row) phrases or lines begin with the same words:

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

• Syntax

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Alliteration is:

• Giving human qualities to an object or animal.

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

• The writer's attitude toward the subject or audience.

• A number of words, having the same first consonant sound, that occur close together in a series.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

A technique that uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:

• Foreshadowing

• Irony

• Tone

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Internal and external are two common types of:

• Parallelism

• Imagery

• Rhetorical Questions

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter:

• Parallelism

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Syntax

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

The arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences:

• Symbolism

• Tone

• Syntax

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When two (sometimes completely opposite) words are placed near one another, creating a comparison/contrast effect, this is called:

• Theme

• Conflict

• Parallelism

• Juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5