Poetic Devices

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Symbolism

• Assonance

• 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

In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong (double vowel) in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.

(e.g. “he fell asleep under the cherry tree” is a phrase that features assonance with the repetition of the long “e” vowel).

• Personification

• Assonance

• Voice

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• Life is like a box of chocolates

• To the guy who invented zero, thanks for nothing.

• Walter wondered where Winnie was.

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

all of the following are examples of what?

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Theme

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

• Simile

• Symbol

• Rhyme

• Hot Cheetos

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below?

The people along the sand

All turn and look one way.

They turn their back on the land.

They look at the sea all day.

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCD

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.

• Musical
• Old-fashioned
• Important
• Difficult

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things 
• tells what a person is doing

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

In a story, what could a storm symbolize?

• love

• happiness

• danger

• luck

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• The statues, atop their pedestals, stared down at me.

• The statues were built on pedestals.

• The statues were made of bronze and marble.

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5