Literary Devices

I am the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I am the comparison of two different things. Doesn’t use like or as.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

To repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Personification

• Onomatiopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The musical quality of a poem.

• Rhythm

• Rhyme Scheme

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The feelings the author creates using words

• Tone

• Mood

• Imagery

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

I am a saying or phrase that means something different than its literal meaning.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines

• simile

• metaphor

• anaphora

• alliteration