Poetic Devices and Techniques Review

Identify the sound device:
My wet shoes squished as I walked across the floor.

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the sound device:
She sang somber songs on Saturdays.

• assonance
• alliteration
• rhyme
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the figurative language:
The track stretched on forever.

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Identify the figurative language:
I felt like a fish out of water.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the figurative language:
The wind whistled through the trees.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Identify the figurative language:
I've got a bone to pick with you!

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"Mr. Tran is a snake" is an example of _______.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB

• AABC

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a 17-syllable traditional Japanese poem; unrhymed; has no title; has three lines containing syllables of 5, 7 & 5; usually about nature

• haiku
• limerick
• ballad
• concrete poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

a humorous 5-line poem; usually begins with "There once was a..."; the third and fourth lines are shorter than lines 1, 3, & 5; rhyme scheme is AABBA

• limerick
• haiku
• quatrain
• free verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5