English Poetry Devices

Repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of neighboring words.

• alliteration

• assonance

• connotation

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Life is a journey" is an example of which poetic device?

• imagery

• mood

• metaphor

• theme

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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 (similar to a paragraph in a story).

• stanza

• tone

• form

• imagery

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a huge exaggeration

• repetition

• hyperbole

• lyric

• denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?

• Repetition 
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Rhyme 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?

• Sensory Language 
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia 
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the use of any element of language, more than once?

• Repetition 
• Rhyme
• Alliteration 
• Rhythm 

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What describes one thing as if it were something else.

• Simile 
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses? 

• Alliteration 
• Onomatopoeia 
• Hyperbole 
• Sensory Language 

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things?

• Metaphor 
• Hyperbole 
• Simile 
• Repetition 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3