Poetry devices

BOOM! is a...

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• enjambment

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

“Wicked Witch of the West” is

• Simile

• alliteration

• imagery

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"All’s fair in love and war" is...

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"the waves stretching their white fingers up towards the sun,” is..

• personification

• rhythm

• rhyme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"If you have decided that you will go there, You will go there."

• Onomatopoeia

• repetition

• enjambment

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

• Metaphor

• assonance

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

I think I had never seen

A verse as beautiful as a flower.

• Enjambment

• simile

• alliteration

• repitition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"And so the teacher turned it out, but still it lingered near,And waited patiently about till Mary did appear.”

• metaphor

• simile

• anaphora

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4