Poetic Devices/ Figurative Language

words at the end of two or more lines that sound the same

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

• end rhyme

• rhyming words

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

repetition of the beginning sounds of words

• repetition

• assonance

• alliteration

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

use of a word as an imitation of sound

"The plates and saucers were clanging as she put them away in the cupboard."

• repetition

• assonance

• meter

• onomatopeoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a reference to a significant person, place, thing, or idea

• allusion

• hyberbole

• alliteration

• similie

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

description that appeals to the five senses

• villanelle

• diction

• imagery

• sonnet

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a type of poem that tells a story

• narrative poem

• ballad

• villanelle

• sonnet

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a poem with variable (not consistent) length, structure, and rhyme scheme

• free verse

• sonnet

• villanelle

• narrative

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a group of lines in a poem

• indentation

• stanza

• line length

• line breaks

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

the voice of the poem

• reader

• writer

• narrator

• speaker

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a comparison between unlike things by saying one is the other

'her smile is sunshine'

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• similie

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D