Poetic Devices and Techniques Review

to compare 2 unlike things USING like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

to compare 2 unlike things WITHOUT USING like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

to give an inanimate object human-like traits

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Words or phrases that paint a picture in the reader's mind

• suspense

• imagery

• poetry

• writing

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

extreme exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

words that sound like that what they mean

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

when words end with the same sound

• alliteration

• rhyming

• singing

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the place where a poet chooses to end a line in order to start writing on the next line

• stanza

• a line break

• it doesn't have a special name for it

• paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What kind of figurative language is below?

Sarah's reply was as sharp as a whip.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What kind of figurative language is below?

When Fatima saw her brother had eaten all the brownies she baked, she became a wildfire of rage.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D