Poetic Devices

What kind of figurative language is used in the lyrics below?

"You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me."

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

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.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

Identify the Poetic Device used in-

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

• meter

Human qualities given to animals, objects or ideas

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• alliteration 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

repetition of the same sounds in a group of words

• repetition
• rhyme
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

By saying, "she is a walking dictionary" you would be using a...

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The rain tapped a tune on my window.

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

The leaves danced in the yard.

• Simile
• Symbol
• Personification
• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the figurative language:
I felt like a fish out of water.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

Identify the figurative language:
Her hair was a bird's nest of tangled locks.

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor 
• idiom

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A