This worksheet introduces literary devices used in poetry. For example, students will define and use rhyme, alliteration, and couplets. It is aligned with the HOLT 8th grade textbook pages 402-404, but may be used without that specific textbook.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
