Poetic Devices

Identify the sound device:
My wet shoes squished as I walked across the floor.

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the sound device:
She sang somber songs on Saturdays.

• assonance
• alliteration
• rhyme
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Identify the sound device:
cat
bat
hat
rat
fat

• rhyme
• rhythm
• alliteration
• consonance

Identify the sound device:
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
A boa constrictor
A boa constrictor
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
- Shel Silverstein

• rhythm
• rhyme
• repetition
• alliteration

Identify the sound device:
Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water.

• rhyme
• rhythm
• repetition
• onomatopoeia

Identify the figurative language:
The track stretched on forever.

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Identify the figurative language:
I felt like a fish out of water.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the figurative language:
Her hair was a bird's nest of tangled locks.

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor 
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the figurative language:
The wind whistled through the trees.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as"

• simile
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4