Poetry: Figurative Language & Poetical Devices

A comparison between unlike objects (not using like, as, resembles, or than) that directly states one thing is another.

• metaphor

• direct metaphor

• implied metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison between 2 unlike objects that DOES use the words like, as, resembles, or than.

• metaphor

• direct metaphor

• implied metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

An exaggeration used for effect

• hyperbole

• onomoatopoeia

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Giving a nonhuman item human characteristics

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The use of contradictory terms to make an effect

• Onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• allusion

• pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A play on the multiple meanings of a word; often funny or humorous

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• pun

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• pun

• assonance

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The use of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close together

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The same internal vowel sound within words that are nearby (but the consonant sounds are different)

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or pop culture

• alliteration

• assonance

• allusion

• illusion

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4