Teaching Poem with Literary Devices

A word that sounds like the noise it describes

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

An exaggerated statement

• rhyme
• metaphor
• alliteration
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Describes something non-human with human qualities

• Internal Rhyme
• Simile
• Personification
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

When two or more words create a rhyme in the same line of a poem or verse

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparing using like or as

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Repeats the beginning consonant sounds in words

• rhyme
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A poem in which the ends of the lines have words that sound the same 

• rhyme
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A reference that is made indirectly, subtly suggested, or implied to somebody or something, using only a word or two

• alliteration
• allusion
• acrostic
• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Compares two different things saying the one is the other--does not use like or as to compare

• alliteration
• rhyme
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The repetition of vowel sounds inside and/or at the ends of words

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4