Literary and Poetic Devices

"Life is like a box of chocolates.”

“The girl is as beautiful as a rose.”

“The willow is like an etching...”

The sentences above contain examples of:

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“My father is a tall, sturdy oak.”

“The hotel is a diamond in the sky.”

“The moon is a balloon…”

The sentences above contain examples of:

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“Hunger sat shivering on the road.”

“The flowers danced on the lawn.”

The sentences above contain examples of:

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“I could sleep for a year.”

”I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.”

“This book weighs a ton.”

The sentences above contain examples of:

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“Her clammy hand felt like the bark of a tree after a summer’s rain.”

"The small pond behind my house lapped at its banks.”

The sentences above contain examples of:

• metaphor

• personification

• rhyme

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“She smiles like a Cheshire cat.”

“If I’m not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin.”

“I wish I could just click my heels...”

The sentences above contain examples of:

• imagery

• allusion

• alliteration

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"A loud pop pierced the air as the gun fired."

"I covered my head as the bees whizzed and buzzed around me."

The sentences above contain examples of:

• consonance

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“Sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song of the hope that the present has brought us…”

“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…”

The sentences above contain examples of:

• repetition

• assonance

• imagery

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"I looked at the shell in the ocean

I looked at the bell in the sea,

I noticed the smell and the motion

Were very peculiar to me."

The sentences above contain examples of:

• rhyme

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Repeating the “eh” sound in the words “crescent,” “flesh,” “extending,” “medicine” and “death” is an example of:

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4