Elements of Poetry / Figurative Language

The repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Words can rhyme either within lines or at the ends of lines.

• alliteration

• rhythm

• rhyme

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Poems with a regular, even beat have a musical sound.

• rhyme

• repetition

• rhythm

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repeating a word or words in lines of poetry.

• alliteration

• rhyme

• rhythm

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

The use of words or phrases that appeal to one of the five senses. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell

• imagery

• personification

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as.

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words whose sounds suggest their meaning.

• allusion

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.

• hyperbole

• allusion

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A