Poetry Pretest

Click all the figurative language and sound devices you can spot.

• Metaphor

• Conflict

• Personification

• True Rhyme

• Adjective

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

A comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or as; stating that something IS something else.

• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

• Metaphor
• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

A group of lines in a poem.

• Rhyme Scheme
• Rhythm
• Line
• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A metaphor that carries the comparison through several lines or throughout an entire poem.

• simile
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• comparable metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A row of words in a poem.

• line
• stanza
• paragraph
• sentence

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• personification
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An exaggeration for effect.

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• topic
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Descriptive words that create a picture in the reader's mind.

• topic
• alliteration
• imagery
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Giving human qualities to a non-human animal, object or idea.

• hyperbole
• imagery
• allusion
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3