Poetic Devices

Words/phrases that appeal to the 5 senses

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Exaggeration for effect

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Comparison of 2 unlike things, saying something is something else

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Gives human qualities/characteristics to nonhuman things

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Comparison of 2 unlike things that uses either like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• alliteration

• assonance

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that Sound like their meaning

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words

• rhyme

• assonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of ending sounds

• rhyme

• assonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Any element of of language used more than once

• repetition

• rhyme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4