Poetic Devices

Identify which poetic device is used below:
He was as strong as an ox.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Refrain

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify which poetic device is used below:
The wonderful wind whistles...

• Metaphor
• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify which poetic device is used below:
"I must confess that in my quest
 I felt depressed and restless."

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Refrain
• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify which poetic device is used below:
The angry clouds marched across the sky.

• Personification
• Refrain
• Simile
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as"

• simile
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• symbolism

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

By saying, "she is a walking dictionary" you would be using a...

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Language that appears to the senses, helps you picture what is happening

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A grouping of lines in a poem or song

• mood

• alliteration

• stanza

• simile

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

“Plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” (R. Cushing)

• allusion

• metaphor

• rhetorical question

• paradox

“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw

• paradox

• simile

• metaphor

• juxtaposition