Figurative Language and Poetry Elements

What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?

• Repetition 
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Rhyme 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?

• Sensory Language 
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia 
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Alliteration?

• It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.
• Dyslexics of the world untie!
• Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!
• Darn dogs dancing.
  I’m the sleekest sheet slitter
  that ever slit sheets.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space. This is like the paragraph of poetry

• stanza
• refrain
• ballad
• chorus

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is personification?

• Giving human like things to non human like things
•  A comparison that uses like or as
• a comparison that do
• Use of a object to stand for a thing or idea

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

meant to tell a funny story; has five lines; has the rhyme scheme AABBA

• limericks
• poetry
• elegy 
• narrative 

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a poem with 14 lines, each has 10 syllables 
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 

• sonnet 
• haiku
• elegy 

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a poem that is meant to be sung; tells a story (often sad); refrains; simple rhyme scheme and regular meters 

• ballad 
• sonnet
• haike
• ode

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure

• free verse 
• ode
• haiku
• prose

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9