Poetic Devices

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

• meter

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The words a poet uses to describe one thing by comparing it to something else with which we are more familiar.

• figurative language

• imagery

• alliteration

• refrain

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparing one thing to another without using "like" or "as".

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

She was as wise as an owl.

• metaphor

• rhyme

• meter

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The use of sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Used to show a slight pause when reading poetry.

• refrain

• meter

• line break

• white space

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse creating a rhythm.

• rhythm

• rhyme

• meter

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

An unrhymed verse.

• blank verse

• free verse

• simile

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Poetry that does not follow a set pattern or form.

• blank verse

• free verse

• refrain

• mataphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CRASH!

• personification

• allireration

• onomatopoeia

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5