Poetry devices

Comparing one thing to another WITHOUT "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Comparing one thing to another WITH "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human qualities (e.g. actions) to nonhuman items

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A phrase with two words that have opposite meanings

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Figurative language that paints a picture in the reader's mind

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Stanza

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When a sentence contains repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Stanza

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When vowels have repeating sounds in a sentence

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Stanza

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A group of lines in a poem that is similar to a paragraph in prose format

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Stanza

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

How rhyming in a poem is organized (e.g. AABBA, ABAAB, ABCABC, etc)

• Alliteration

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A stanza containing two lines

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Free Verse

• Couplet

• Quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4