Poetic Terms and Devices Review

In which poetic device are human qualities and actions attributed to an inanimate object.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

'Come and clean the chaos in your closet,' is an example of

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

'The sun is a sparkling diamond,' is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

They fought like cats and dogs.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Use of over-exaggeration to create emphasis or humour is

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Boom!

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

If you are using figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas to appeal to your reader's senses, your poetry is full of...

• couplets

• imagery

• a sonnet

• idioms

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The use of sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The author's attitude toward what they're writing about

• Mood

• Tone

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

When there's a punctuation mark within a line of poetry to indicate a pause

• Tone

• Allusion

• Caesura

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4