Poetry Terms Application

I went to a seafood disco last night, and I pulled my mussel.

• personification

• pun

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The sun smiled down on the field of flowers.

• personification; alliteration

• personification; simile

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Bill bent the brown chunk of wood in two.

• allegory

• allusion

• alliteration

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

After our Project Prom, I was so tired that I could have slept for a week.

• simile

• allusion

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The heavenly scent of bitter coffee and pumpkin spice wafted into my nose as soon as I entered the adorable, little coffee shop.

• idiom

• allusion

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

I looked at my sister as the storm rolled in, and before I could yell, "Duck!" the thunder BOOMED and the lightning CRACKLED!

• allusion

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

She was a beam of lightness in the darkness of my depression.

• simile

• direct metaphor

• implied metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

My daughter thinks she is a ray of sunshine in every person's life.

• simile

• direct metaphor

• allusion

• implied metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

The drought this summer had my flowers begging for water.

• allusion

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

My sister and I had a friendly fight.

• allusion

• imagery

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A