Poetic Devices Rvw

a deliberate exaggeration often used for comic effect. Example - "I could eat a WHOLE elephant."

• hyperbole/hipérbole (noun)

• simile/símil (noun)

• onomatopoeia/onomatopeya (noun)

• personification/personificación (noun)

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

a comparison of two objects using "like" or "as." Example - "They're looking at you like you're a meal."

• hyperbole/hipérbole (noun)

• simile/símil (noun)

• onomatopoeia/onomatopeya (noun)

• personification/personificación (noun)

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

vocal imitation of a sound that names or describes a thing or action. Example - "Crash!" or "Bam!"

• hyperbole/hipérbole (noun)

• simile/símil (noun)

• onomatopoeia/onomatopeya (noun)

• personification/personificación (noun)

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

giving human qualities to non-human things like animals, objects, or ideas. Example - "The motor coughed and wheezed."

• hyperbole/hipérbole (noun)

• simile/símil (noun)

• onomatopoeia/onomatopeya (noun)

• personification/personificación (noun)

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

a comparison of two objects WITHOUT using "like" or "as." Example - "Life is your restaurant and I'm your maitre'd "

• metaphor/metáfora (noun)

• alliteration/aliteración (noun)

• literal language/lenguaje literal (noun phrase)

• figurative language/lenguaje figurativo (noun phrase)

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a repetition of the first consonant sound of a word or phrase - "Shining, shimmering, splendid" or "DOWN in the DUMPS."

• metaphor/metáfora (noun)

• alliteration/aliteración (noun)

• literal language/lenguaje literal (noun phrase)

• figurative language/lenguaje figurativo (noun phrase)

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

imaginative or symbolic words used to describe things in an unusual or extraordinary way.

• metaphor/metáfora (noun)

• alliteration/aliteración (noun)

• literal language/lenguaje literal (noun phrase)

• figurative language/lenguaje figurativo (noun phrase)

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

visually descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• imagery/imágenes

• scansion/escansión (noun)

• prosody/prosodia (noun)

• syntax/sintaxis (noun)

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5