"only kindness that ties your shoes"

from Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye

• Example of personification

• Example of alliteration

• Example of simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"...the orange has seeds and so is perpetual;

and we too will come back like the orange trees."

from My Father is a Simple Man by Luis Omar Salinas

• Example of alliteration

• Example of simile

• Example of symbolism

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps"

from Preludes by T.S. Eliot

• Example of metaphor

• Example of symbolism

• Example of alliteration

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"...the bus will never stop, the passengers... will stare out the window forever."

from Kindness by Luis Omar Salinas

• Example of metaphor

• Example of simile

• Example of symbolism

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The use of repetitive words and stanzas are examples of...

• Rhyme scheme

• Structure

• Meter

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"...till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows

and you see the size of the cloth."

from Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye

• Example of sensory details

• Example of metaphor

• Example of alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When an object represents an idea ___.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When two different things are compared which have a shared characteristic, ___.

• Metaphor

• Repetitive

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When something is described with humanlike qualities, ___.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A group of lines organized together in a poem are ____.

• Paragraph

• Rhyme scheme

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9