Poetic Devices

What device uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is an example of Allusion?

• He was a real Romeo with the ladies.

• The story's ending was bittersweet.

• She was feeling under the weather.

• What do you call a knight who is afraid to fight?

  Sir Render.

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Being "under the weather" is an example of which poetic device?

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Pun

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Explain the difference between "Alliteration" and "Assonance."

• Alliteration is the resembling of a sound the word means while Assonance gives non human things human characteristics.

• Alliteration is the repetition of consonants while Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds.

• Alliteration gives non human things human characteristics while Assonance is the resembling of a sound the word means.

• Alliteration is the repetition of vowel sounds while Assonance is the repetition of consonants.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is an example of a Metaphor?

• The sun smiled down on us.

• You're about to open up Pandora's box.

• He has a heart of gold!

• Everyday with you is like a fairytale.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which device uses intentional exaggeration for effect?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Pun

• Rhyme

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which devices are utilized in the follow song lyrics? (There can be more than one answer):

"I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser

Midnights become my afternoons

When my depression works the graveyard shift

All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room"

• Allusion

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Rhythm

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

How do you know if it is an Extended Metaphor?

• It compares two unlike things by giving them human characteristics.

• It compares two unlike things by using intentional exaggeration.

• It compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."

• It compares two unlike things over the course of the whole text.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D