What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as, like, or than

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things not using like or as

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Alliteration is...

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• a comparison using like or as

• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that sound like their meaning

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An exaggerated statement is a...

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not use like, as, or than

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A comparison that does use like, as, or than

• words that sound like their meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like what they mean

• an exaggerated statement

• a comparison using like, as, or than

• an expression not meant to be taken literally (ex. On cloud 9, raining cats and dogs)

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A group of lines in a poem, separated by space is...

• Verse

• Stanza

• Symbolism

• Theme

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Two words that have opposite or very different meanings

• Couplet

• Imagery

• Oxymorons

• Limerick

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A type of poetry that has no real rhyme or pattern

• Rhyme Pattern

• Meter

• Limerick

• Free Verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Having the same sound at the end of two or more words

• Couplet

• Rhyme Pattern

• Alliteration

• Verse

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CCSS.RL.7.4