Poetic Device

'Come and clean the chaos in your closet,' is an example of

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

'The sun is a sparkling diamond,' is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

They fought like cats and dogs.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Use of over-exaggeration to create emphasis or humour is

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

' In the dark morning, the man laughed sadly.' This is an example of

• personification

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Boom!

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which of these is an example of hyperbole?

• Kid, you'll move mountains!

• You've got brains in your head, you've got feet in your shoes...

• You'll find the bright places where boom bands are playing!

• You'll find the high flyers who fly to great heights!

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“Plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” (Richard Cushing)

• allusion

• understatement

• rhetorical question

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• personification

• symbolism

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Dove = Peace would be an example of...

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• symbolism

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5