Poetry Review #1

When a phrase conveys a figurative meaning that is difficult or impossible to understand based only on its literal interpretation.

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a writer compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Comparing to unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The wind whispered softly outside the open window.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Standing tall and frozen like statues in a vacant courtyard

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

She was a Good Samaritan when she helped the old lady.

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It's raining cats and dogs!

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A