Literary Devices/Poetic Devices

Front

Definition of assonance?

Back

Repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Repetition of consonant sounds in poetry?

Back

Consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Definition of alliteration?

Back

Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Term for sentence continuation over a line-break?

Back

Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Front

Definition of personification?

Back

Endowing animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human characteristics.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Voice of the poem, may be the poet's or a character's.

Back

Speaker

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Front

Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Back

Onamonapia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Expression that indirectly references something without mentioning it:

Back

Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Front

Conscious exaggeration for heightened or comic effect

Back

Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

Implied comparison between unrelated things, one tangible and one intangible.

Back

Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D