Poetic Devices Examples

“It’s raining cats and dogs” is an example of a what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a group of words that carries a particular meaning other than what it literally says?

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

This figurative language term is when the same vowel sounds occur in several words in one sentence.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Meter

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Penny’s pretty pink parchment was perfect for her party invitations” is an example of a(n):

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbol

• 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

“His eyes seemed to burn red.” What is this an example of?

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Idiom

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. Example: Too sweet to eat and it can't be beat. (The repetition of the "ee" sound)

• Assonance

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Consonance

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Applying human characteristics to inanimate objects/inhuman objects. Example: The trees stared into the breeze. The wind whispered softly.

• Internal Rhyme

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison using "like" or "as." Example: You are as skinny as a rail. You look like a train wreck.

• Diction

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Deliberate repetition of consonant sounds. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. (The repetition of the "P" sound)

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other, usually in words placed near each other (should occur in sounds that are accented or stressed).

• Symbolism

• Consonance

• End Rhyme

• Assonance

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4