Poetic Devices

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• "You may trod me in the very dirt/ but still, like dust, I’ll rise."

• "Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

  How I wonder what you are."

• "The wind played hide-and-go-seek among the trees."

• "Life is a highway."

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• "The day was as hot as the sun."

• "Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes."

• "The stars winked in the night sky."

• "His opponent was looking for his Achilles’ heel to beat him."

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• "Because I could not stop for Death –

  He kindly stopped for me."

• "The stars winked in the night sky."

• "Our life is like a thorny rose

  Not perfect, but always beautiful."

• "I am the hope and the dream of the slave."

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops.”

• Personification

• Imagery

• Onomatopeia

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“You may shoot me with your words

You may cut me with your eyes

You may kill me with your hatefulness”

• Imagery

• Pun

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.”

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Pun

• Meter

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as"

• simile
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• symbolism

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally 

• extended metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Human qualities given to animals, objects or ideas

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• alliteration 

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CCSS.L.6.5A