Figurative Language and Poetry Review

That perches in the soul/and never stops at all

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Sonnet

• Slant Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

The young couple tied the knot after dating for five years

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Max is a human calculator because he's so good at math.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The fat cat sat on the mat

• Slant rhyme

• Sonnet

• Internal rhyme

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The blizzard created a Pandora's Box of issues on the roads.

• Metaphor

• Stanza

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When Juliet talks to herself about her love for Romeo

• Soliloquy

• Simile

• Internal rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

A horse is a horse, of course, of course/ And no one can talk to a horse, of course...

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The whinnying horses and mooing cows came crashing through the fence.

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Shakespeare is famous for writing these 14-line poems.

• Stanza

• Soliloquy

• Idiom

• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Stars and stripes stay/ Freedom is forever/ America is amazing!

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5