Poetic Devices

A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using LIKE or AS

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things without using LIKE or AS

The use of words that imitate the sound being described

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

To give inanimate objects human qualities

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Using exaggeration to add emotion or to make a point

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When two or more words in the same line of a poem rhyme

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Two or more words that have ALMOST the same ending sound

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CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A struggle that takes place inside a character's mind

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A struggle between the character and outside forces

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D