Poetic Devices

Stella loves the moon, with its untroubled smile.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

They drifted past my domain like logs on a lazy river.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Stella is a mountain. Next to her I am a rock, and Bob is a grain of sand.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Merry chicken soup with

Merry chicken soup with

Merry chicken soup with rice.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

In April I will go away

To far off Spain or old Bombay

• Simile

• End rhyme

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

If the world was crazy, you know what I'd eat?

A big slice of soup and a whole quart of meat

• Personification

• Metaphor

• End rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RF.K.2A

Which poetic device is shown in red?

Then suddenly, the jaws went SNAP

And the dentist was gone, right off the map

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which poetic device is underlined in red? Pick the best answer.

And the Crocodile cried, "You're hurting me so!

Please put down your pliers and let me go."

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

She draws things that aren’t real: clouds that smile and cars that swim.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The world is so big and we’re all so small

sometimes it feels like we can’t do anything at all

• End rhyme

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4