Figurative Language in the Poet X

"But when she opens her mouth, there's a tidal wave of Nat King Cole that crashes into my ears" - (p. 7)

• Anaphora

• Repetition

• Allusion

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

My tongue is a cage" - from the poem "Tongue Tied" (p. 32)

• Anaphora

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The silence stretched between us like a tightrope" - from the poem "The First Day of Senior Year" (p. 75)

• Repitition

• Anaphora

• Simile

• Personfuication

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"I have a throat / I have a voice / I have a say" - from the poem "Empty" (p. 6)

• Anaphora

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The wind dances around my feet, teasing me" - (p. 20)

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"We sang a lullaby of sirens and screams" - from the poem "Exile" (p. 4)

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• allusion

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The city was a playground for the rich, the poor playing hopscotch with bullets" - from the poem "City Love" (p. 41)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Juxtaposition

• Repitition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The world is a room with no door" - from the poem "At the Edge of the Continent" (p. 11)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repitition

• Juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"And the boy who won't stop staring at me? / He's singing 'Amazing Grace' / But he can't carry a tune / and I wonder if God hears him" -(p. 37)

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Simile

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"I wear my hair in tight cornrows, like a crown on my head, like a warrior" - (p. 19)

• Repetition

• Simile

• Allusion

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4