Poetic Device Definitions

The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of poetry.

• hyperbole

• imagery

• alliteration

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

• hyperbole

• imagery

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When words create a sensory experience using the five senses. The words paint a picture.

• internal rhyme

• hyperbole

• mood

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The repetition of sounds at the end of words.

• internal rhyme

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Rhyme that occurs within the line of poetry.

• rhyme

• internal rhyme

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two things, connected by the words like or as.

• symbol

• rhyming couplet

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A comparison of two unlike things by stating one thing is something else.

• alliteration

• repetition

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A two line stanza in poetry, which tend to have lines of equal length and the last word in each line rhymes with the other line.

• internal rhyme

• rhyming couplet

• rhyme

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

An object used to represent an idea or a feeling.

• onomatopoeia

• tone

• mood

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The emotional quality of the poem. The feeling created by the poem.

• tone

• mood

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B