Poetry and Figurative Language

When a poet writes a sentence in an unusual way

• poetic inversion

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Repetition of a vowel

• poetic inversion

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Placing two opposites next to each

• poetic inversion

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

strong nouns, adjectives and verbs to create a picture often using our senses

• vivid word choice or imagery

• poetic apostrophe

• extended metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

speaker talks to a thing or person not there as if they could understand

• vivid word choice or imagery

• poetic apostrophe

• extended metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Implying a comparison between two like things for multiple stanzas or the whole poem

• vivid word choice or imagery

• poetic apostrophe

• extended metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Refers to something the reader already knows like a famous person, story or event now or in history

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Repeating the same letter at the beginning of multiple words close together.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repeating a consonant (not a vowel) sound inside or at end of words.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repeating a middle or ending sound in a pattern inside a poem to make it sing

Example: AABA

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4