Poetic Devices - Grade 7

Words spelled the way they sound.

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Snapshot

A direct representation or a comparison where one thing is another.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Personification

A device that gives human attributes to animals and objects.

• Juxtaposition

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Imagery

What poetic device is this?

• Repetition
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Theme

• Simile

"I told you a million times, do not exaggerate!" is an example of?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Tone

A mental picture described using sight, smell, taste, hearing, or touch.

• Background

• Setting

• Diction

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.W.3.3A

Eliza Doolittle in the movie My Fair Lady, repeats the following line: “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain”. This is an example of what poetic device?

• consonance

• rhyme

• assonance

• personification

"Once upon a midnight dreary,

while I pondered, weak and weary ..."

taken from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe shows an example of?

• rhyme

• alliteration

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Which of the following shows an example of consonance?

• Red Riding Hood

• BANG!!

• She smiled at the pretty silk flowers.

• Suzy was the first to burst into the gym.