Poetry Sound Devices and Figurative Language

"For they thought if only Casey could get one whack at that."

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• ballad

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Peter opened an opportunity of empty promises.

• lyric poem

• narrative poem

• ballad

• consonance

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Words that imitate the sound they are naming.

• diction

• onomatopoeia

• poetry

• the speaker

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Maggie and Milly and Molly and May is:

• personification

• point of view

• a hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" is

• a haiku

• a metaphor

• alliteration

• a stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt" is an example of

• hyperbole

• end rhyme

• refrain

• lyric poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Sushi the kitty wished the cushion was squishier" is an example of

• consonance

• refrain

• poetic feet

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

I laughed at the folly of the man on the raft.

• consonance

• rhyme scheme

• meter

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"drippy ends of ice cream cones" is an example of

• consonance

• rhyme scheme

• a ballad

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The twang of the banjo made the baby cry.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5