Poetry Terms and Examples

A figure of speech and form of irony in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

To give human traits and characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of two unlike things that are basically unalike but do share some qualities in common.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:

“Shine bright like a diamond”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:

"Dancing daffodils, the grass bowed to the wind"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:

"I would walk a million miles to be at your side"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:

"The stars in her eyes"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyming Couplet

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

A pattern of end rhymes (words at the end of a line) in a poem.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyming Couplet

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4