Elements of Poetry

What clues words help identify a simile?

• is or was

• like or as

• you or is

• like or is

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A word that imitates the sound of what it describes is called...

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Heidi, hopped, happily" is an example of ...

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphors

• similie

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"She is a gem." is an example of a ...

• simile

• metaphor

• stanza

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A group of lines within a poem is called a

• paragraph

• sentence

• stanza

• party of words

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

When poets use words with the same ending sound at the end of lines or stanzas we call it a...

• rhyme time

• rhyme scheme

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.7.4

The same sound or letter at the beginning of words or lines is called...

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme scheme

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two things that DOES NOT use like or as is called a...

• simile

• alliteration

• rhyme scheme

• metaphor

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

"He runs fast like a cheetah" is an example of a ...

• metaphor

• simile

• animal fact

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Wham! PoP! POW! These are examples of...

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5