Poetic Device Terms

A comparison of two unlike things by stating that one thing IS another

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human characteristics to a non-human object

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When words sound like the actual sound of the thing they refer to or describe

• Repetition

• End Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

a reference to a person, place, thing, book, or pop culture

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personfication

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

when the beginning consonant sound of words are repeated in close succession

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a literary device in which the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repeating words, phrases, or lines

• Rhyme Scheme

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Rhyme Scheme

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4