Poetry Devices and Figurative Language

The “I” voice in a poem; not necessarily the poet!

• speaker

• poet

• narrator

• character

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

any language that appeals to the reader’s five senses. If it helps the to imagine what something looks, tastes, smells, sounds, or feels like, it’s this!

• mood

• imagery

• theme

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The emotional impact the author creates through word choice, imagery, and devices.

• imagery

• mood

• allusion

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A reference to something outside of a literary work, like a Bible story or verse.

• imagery

• allusion

• mood

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Diction

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A word that sounds like what it means. 

• Onomatopoeia

• Consonance

• Metaphor

• Verse

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• Plot Elements

• Figurative Language

• Sensory Language

• Literal Language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Words within the lines that rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Exact Rhyme

• Near Rhyme

• End Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which literary device is being conveyed in the following line?
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so"

• juxtaposition 

• metaphor

• symbolism

• apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The following line is an example of which sound device?
I think I like the bright, pink kite. 

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• repetition

• alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4