Poetic Devices

This poetic device gives human characteristics (or traits) to non-human things.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

This poetic device is an exaggeration.

• personification

• hyperbole

• understatement

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

This poetic device is a comparison between two unlike things with no clue words.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

This poetic device is the repetition of identical consonant sounds.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• 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

This poetic device is a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• understatement

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

"Sarah sells seashells by the seashore" is an example of which poetic device?

• sensory imagery

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"At lunchtime, the cafeteria was buzzing like a beehive" is an example of which poetic device?

• simile

• metaphor

• understatement

• sensory imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players" is an example of which poetic device?

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This poetic device involves symbols or objects to represent ideas or qualities.

• personification

• hyperbole

• symbolism

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"I am as hungry as a horse" is an example of which poetic device?

• understatement

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6