Poetic Devices

What does labelling the last word in lines of poetry with A, B, C, etc enable you to do?

• Check you know the alphabet

• Check the rhyme scheme

• Check the number of syllables

• Look for poetic devices

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is it called when a sentence continues over more than one line of poetry?

• Enjambment

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is it called when the sound at the beginning of consecutive words is the same, e.g. Deadly dogs darting daringly...

• Assonance

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Prose

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the name for a paragraph of poetry?

• Prose

• Verse

• Stanza

• Voice

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is it called when an inanimate object is given human characteristics, e.g. the sun smiled down on us...

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is it called when the word is spelled as it sounds, e.g. crash!

• Personification

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is it called when two words are next to each other with directly opposite meanings, e.g. icy heat?

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which of these is spelled correctly?

• Simile

• Similie

• Similee

• Semile

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2E

CCSS.L.K.2D

CCSS.RF.1.3C

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.2.3B

What is it called when something is compared to something else using 'like', 'as' or 'than', e.g. He was like a pig in mud

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the following an example of: 'The trees danced happily in the wind'

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D