poetic devices

A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• onomatopoeia

• anaphora

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"You have a heart of gold" is an example of what poetic device?

• simile

• personification

• anaphora

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What poetic device is Elvis Presley using in this song?

"You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog

Quit snoopin’ ’round my door

You can wag your tail

But I ain’t gonna feed you no more."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• 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

What poetic device gives human traits to non-human things?

• personification

• imagery

• rhyme

• simile

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What poetic device is this an example of?

• personification

• imagery

• 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

This is an example of what poetic device?

• imagery

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The type of repetition that happens at the beginning of a line or phrase

• rhyme

• alliteration

• anaphora

• simile

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What poetic device is Frank SInatra using in these lines? "I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king"

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• 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

"I'm going to die of emabrassment" is an example of what poetic device?

• hyperbole

• simile

• imagery

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A