Poetic Devices

The repetition of FIRST consonants in a group of words.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Internal Rhyme

Reference to a person, place, or thing in history.

• Symbol

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Cacophony

The repetition of VOWEL sounds

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

The repetition of CONSONANT sounds in a word

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyme

• Consonance

Use of expressive or evocative images in poetry, art, literature, or music

• Symbolism

• Diction

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An author’s word choice

• Imagery

• Diction

• Tone

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Rhyme that occurs within one line

• End rhyme

• Near rhyme

• Internal rhyme

• Anaphora

A direct comparison between two objects or subjects

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Use of word that verbalize a sound

• Cacophony

• Tone

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

Graphical, vocal, written, or physical object that usually represents another, more complex object of abstract property

• Anaphora

• Consonance

• Symbol

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4