Poetic Devices

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity, not using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

A figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things, using like or as

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

Attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

using words that imitate the sound they denote

• onomatopoeia

• hypebole

• couplet

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

extravagant exaggeration

• hyperbole

• couplet

• allusion

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse

• couplet

• allusion

• assonance

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

passing reference or indirect mention

• allusion

• assonance

• consonance

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The repetition of similar vowels in successive words

• assonance

• consonance

• stanza

• free verse

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The property of sounding harmonious

• consonance

• stanza

• free verse

• enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4