Poetic Devices

Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A

What is onomatopoeia?

• A word or phrase that can be said forwards and backwards
•  An obviouse exaggeration
• A word that mimics a sound
• Givig human qualities to an item

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeic word.
Saya was doing the dishes and the clanging pots awoke the baby.

• pots
• clanging
• dishes
• awoke

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

"When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her."
What is being personified?

• Adele
• The store
• High heels
• Her

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Instead of a paragraph, in poetry we call the chunks...

• stanzas
• sections
• staza
• stan

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author
• Speaker
• Narrator
• Main character

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• The repetition of a letter.
• The repetition of an ending sound.

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CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5