Poetic Devices

Definition for Rhyme

• Sound words

• words that end in the same sound

• the pattern of rhymes

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition for Repetition

• a comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

• to repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem

• the musical quality of a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition for Imagery

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

• the attitude or mood the author creates

• sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Definition for Rhyme Scheme

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• the attitude or mood the author creates

• the pattern of rhymes

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition for Hyperbole

• a deliberate exaggeration

• the musical quality of a poem

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Definition for Personification

• the musical quality of a poem

• giving things that are not human, the personalities or actions of humans

• the pattern of rhymes

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Definition for Stanza

• a group of lines in a poem

• the pattern of rhymes

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Definition for Simile

• the pattern or rhymes

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Definition for Metaphor

• a comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

• words that end in the same sound

• sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

definition for Alliteration

• the musical quality of a poem

• The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words.

• a deliberate exaggeration

• sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4