Poetic Devices and Elements Review

Giving non-human objects human actions and traits

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'...

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparing two unlike things NOT using 'like' or 'as'...

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words that represent a sound or suggest a sound

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Words that create a sensory image in the reader's mind...

• Simile

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The pattern of end rhymes in a poem

• Rhyme scheme

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Poetry that doesn't have a pattern, form or structure.

• Form

• Rhythm

• Free verse

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The central idea or lesson of a poem...

• Irony

• Theme

• Tone

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

When something happens that is the opposite of what's expected...

• Irony

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A