Cut-out cards Matching sheet

Print double-sided (flip on the long edge) and cut along the dashed lines. Fronts and backs line up.

Poetic Devices · Fronts · page 1

Imagery
Stanza
Symbol
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Rhyme
Simile
Alliteration

Poetic Devices · Backs · page 1

A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
The ability to form mental ___ of things or events
Extravagant exaggeration
An arbitrary sign that has acquired a conventional significance
Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds

Poetic Devices · Fronts · page 2

Assonance
Personification
Onomatopoeia

Poetic Devices · Backs · page 2

A ___ who represents an abstract quality
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Using words that imitate the sound they denote