Just Right Words for Poetry

A comparison between two objects using “like” or “as”.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating that one thing is another.

• metaphor

• figurative language

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words.

• repitition

• alliteration

• rhythm

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

The use of words to imitate sounds.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The same beginning sound existing between two words.

• rhyme

• rhyme sceme

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

To make something seem larger or more important than it is. Dramatic and exaggerated, for example.

• hyperbole

• figurative language

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Using the same word or phrase over and over again.

• stanza

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

A figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities.

• figurative language

• stanza

• personification

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

Any expressive use of language that includes similes, metaphors, and personification.

• figurative language

• repetition

• hyperbole

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

A grouping of two or more lines in a poem.

• paragraph

• hyperbole

• stanza

• lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5