Poetic Devices

What is alliteration?

• Repetition of the first letter/sound in nearby words

• repeating vowel sounds in poetry

• Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• Repeating consonant sounds in poetry near the middle or end of words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is onomatopoeia?

• The use of concrete details to describe what the reader should see, hear, touch, smell, taste.

• A direct comparison between two unlike things.

• An outrageous exaggeration used for effect.

• Words that sound like their meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a rhyme?

• The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for a certain effect.

• repeating vowel sounds in poetry

• Words that have different beginning sounds but whose ending sound the same.

• A direct comparison between two unlike things

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a simile?

• Repeating consonant sounds in poetry near the middle or end of words.

• The use of concrete details to describe what the reader should see, hear, touch, smell, taste.

• Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is assonance?

• repeating vowel sounds in poetry.

• Repeating consonant sounds in poetry near the middle or end of words.

• An outrageous exaggeration used for effect.

• Repetition of the first letter/sound in nearby words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is a metaphor?

• Words that sound like their meaning.

• A direct comparison between two unlike things.

• A direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

• repeating vowel sounds in poetry .

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a hyperbole?

• A direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

• Words that sound like their meaning.

• An outrageous exaggeration used for effect.

• The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for a certain effect.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is consonance?

• repeating vowel sounds in poetry.

• The use of concrete details to describe what the reader should see, hear, touch, smell, taste.

• Repeating consonant sounds in poetry near the middle or end of words?

• A direct comparison between two unlike things.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is imagery?

• The use of concrete details to describe what the reader should see, hear, touch, smell, taste.

• Words that sound like their meaning.

• Repetition of the first letter/sound in nearby words.

• Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is personification?

• A direct comparison between two unlike things.

• Gives animal characteristics to people.

• repeating vowel sounds in poetry

• Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4