Poetic Devices and Figurative Language

Which sentence is a simile?

• Her voice was music to my ears.

• The leaves danced in the wind.

• He was as sly as a fox.

• Time is a thief.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using the words, "like" or "as".

• An exaggeration used for effect.

• A word that sounds like its meaning.

• A direct comparison but NOT using the words "like" or "as".

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which sentence uses personification as a poetic device?

• The thunder roared angrily.

• She was faster than lightning.

• He is my rock.

• The ice was cold and slippery.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Define alliteration.

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• Words that imitate sounds

• The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• A type of rhyme

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which line uses hyperbole?

• I've told you a million times!

• The sun was shining brightly.

• She whispered softly.

• The car was red like a cardinal.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an example of onomatopoeia?

• The rain tapped on the window.

• The bees buzzed by the flowers.

• Her tears were like rivers.

• The sky was a blanket of stars.

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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 phrase “cruel kindness” uses what poetic device?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is the purpose of imagery in a poem?

• To make words rhyme

• To create vivid pictures in the reader’s mind

• To confuse the reader

• To use shorter sentences

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Boom," "crash," and "buzz"--

these are examples of which poetic device?

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players” is an example of which poetic device?

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D