Poetic Devices Review

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

• alliteration

• assonance

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

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

• suspense

• imagery

• poetry

• writing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.W.4.3D

extreme exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

to compare 2 unlike things USING like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

to compare 2 unlike things WITHOUT USING like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

to give an inanimate object human-like traits

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

words that sound like that what they mean

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• hyperbole

a group of lines in a poem

• paragraph

• stanza

• it doesn't have a special name for it

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

All poems must rhyme to be considered a poem.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

when words end with the same sound

• alliteration

• rhyming

• singing

• simile