ELA 1
figurative lang
Poetry
Ela skill 2
Poetic devices
100

To inform, to persuade, or to entertain?

author's purpose

100

What does I am so hungry I could eat a horse mean?

starving/hungry

100

silly 5 lined poem with aabba scheme

limerick

100

character's thoughts

character's perspective

100

sound word

onomonopea

200

Author's opinion

Author's claim

200

does not mean what the words literally say

idiom

200

no rhyme

free verse
200

change of the character

character's development

200

repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sentence

alliteration

300

The message or lesson of a story

theme

300
compares two things with "like" or "as"

simile

300

3 lined poem with 17 syllables total

haiku

300

1st uses I or me, 2nd uses you, 3rd uses he/she/they

point of view

300
saying the same word over and over again

repetition

400

heading, bold words, maps, charts, diagrams, pictures

text features

400

exaggeration

hyperbole

400

pace/beat/speed of a poem

meter/rhythm

400

consists of characters, setting, problem, solution and theme

summary

400

something non human doing something humans would do

personification

500

first and last sentence, headings, repeated words

central message

500

compares two things saying one "is" or "was" the other

metaphor

500

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Rhymn Scheme

500
cause/effect, problem/solution, sequence

text structure

500

repetition of vowel sounds in a poem

assonance