Poetic Elements

Using words to engage the five senses, creating mental pictures in your mind...

• personification

• Simile

• Imagery

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

By saying, "she is a walking dictionary" you would be using a...

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"The wilted flowers begged for water." is an example of....

• personification

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Repeats the first sound in several words..

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• 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

Using words that mimic or imitate the actual sound.

•Ex. “Crunch!”

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The baby's skin is as smooth as silk.

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

human qualities or ideas are given to non human things

• idiom

• imagery

• alliteration

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• idiom

• alliteration

• 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

language that is not meant to be taken literally

• figurative language

• rhyme

• lines

• poetry

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked" is an example of what sound device?

• assonance

• alliteration

• 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