Poetry Devices-Harris

A long narrative poem sometimes put to music.

• Limerick
• Haiku
• Ballad
• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The faint buzz told me a mosquito was honing in on my ear.

• Personification

• Lyric

• Limerick

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A poem about death.

• Limerick
• Elegy
• Haiku
• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

Your sister looks like a wild thing.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A poem developed by the letters of a word or name.

• Alphabet poem
• Acrostic

• Haiku

• Rhyming poem

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

The rain fell gently to the ground,

And slipped into the earth without a sound.

• Lyric

• Sonnet

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

My silly sister slipped surreptitiously over the sill.

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Allusion

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

A poem that does not follow a specific rhythm or rhyme scheme.

• Structured verse
• Free verse
• Rhyming verse
• Metered verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A five lined poem with a definite rhyme scheme and rhythm. The first, second and fifth lines rhyme, as do the third and fourth. The third and fourth are shorter than the first, second and fifth lines.

• Sonnet
• Haiku
• Free verse
• Limerick

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes.

• Metaphor

• Internal Rhyme

• Personification

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.10