Arizona's Common Core Standards
Source
http://www.azed.gov/azcommoncore/files/2012/09/accs-6-8-ela-standards-final09_17_2012.pdf

Instructional Standard and Learning Objective

Standard

Arizona's Common Core Standards English Language Arts and Literacy 6th - 8th Grades 

7.RL.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.

Learning Objective

By the end of this lesson, students will define some of the poetic devices (metaphor, alliteration, hyperbole, personification, simile, refrain, and onomatopoeia).

By the end of this lesson, students will identify examples of the poetic devices in the provided poems.