Identifying Poetic Devices

"My voice is like a rumour. I'mnot sure if it came out or not,or if it is true." I am theMessenger

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"My bed is sending out serious

nap rays. I can't help myself.

The fluffy pillows and warm

comforter are more powerful

than I am." Speak

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"How they tinkle, tinkle,

tinkle, / In the icy air of night!;

To the tintinnabulation that

so musically wells / From the

bells, bells, bells, bells, / Bells,

bells, bells / From the jingling

and the tinkling of the bells"

The Bells

• end rhyme

• symbolism

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

"We are crayons and

lunchboxes and swinging so

high our sneakers punch holes

in the clouds." Winter Girls

• allusion

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"Deep into that darkness

peering, long I stood there

wondering, fearing, Doubting,

dreaming dreams no mortal

ever dared to dream before"

The Raven

• hyperbole

• internal rhyme

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

I've told you a million times

• slant rhyme

• repetition

• hyperbole

• enjambment

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the King's horses, And all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again!"

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• enjambment

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"

• slant rhyme

• simile

• internal rhyme

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep."

• connotation

• stanza

• allusion

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

"I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

• imagery

• rhyme scheme

• free verse

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4