Poetry Devices

An object, person, or idea that represents something beyond itself.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The use of picture-painting words to help you experience author's ideas with all your senses.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The use of a word, sound, or phrase more than once

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A central message or insight about life that sits at the center of each poem

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Like or as used to make comparison between two basically unlike ideas.

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

"Life is like a box of chocolates"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Irony

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"She sells sea shells by the sea shore"

• Personification

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

”’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door- Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Illusion

• Theme

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Dreams are balloons floating in the sky"

• Alliteration

• Illusion

• Metaphor

• Tone

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D