Poetic Devices
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Poetic Devices
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Simile• A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using
the words “is like” or “as.” “Stars” They are like flashlights in the night sky;
God’s little helpers guiding us on our journeys. Stars are as bright as a lighthouse on an icy, ocean night; they are like guardians committed to bringing you home.
• The words in black are examples of similes
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Metaphor• A metaphor is a comparison
of two unlike things in which one
thing is directly stated as being the
other
The clouds are white, fluffy cotton balls.
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Alliteration• Alliteration is the repetition of
consonant sounds in lines of poetry.
She sells seashells by the seashore.
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Assonance• Assonance is the repetition of
vowel sounds in lines of poetry.
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.
Free and easy.
Make the grade.
The stony walls enclosed the holy space.
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Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far.
It is among the oldest of living things.
So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came. --Carl Sandburg, Early Moon
“I made my way to the lake.”
“…on a proud round cloud in white high night…”- E. E. Cummings
Assonance
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Imagery• Using any of the senses to paint a mental picture with words.• Robert Frost is known for his use of imagery
in his poetry.
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Onomatopoeia
• A word that sounds like what it describes.
• Example: The crackle of fire struck a cord of fear in our hearts.
buzz… hiss… roar… meow… woof… rumble… howl… snap… zip… zap… blip… whack … crack… crash… flutter… flap… squeak… whirr.. pow… plop… crunch… splash… jingle… rattle… clickety-clack… bam!
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Personification• Giving any nonhuman object or animal a human characteristic• This is the first stanza of William Wordsworth’s poem “Daffodils”
I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
The daffodils are personified by being in a a crowd and dancing like people do.
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Allusion• Allusion is a reference to another well known
written work, movie, song, painting, or poem.• The song “Stealing Cinderella” by Chuck Wicks
includes an allusion. • The singer refers to the woman he loves as
Cinderella and he is Prince Charming
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Repetition
Words or phrases repeated in writings to give emphasis, rhythm, and/or a sense of urgency.
Example: from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Bells”
To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells – Of the bells, bells, bells, bells Bells, bells, bells – To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Think of all the songs
you know where words
and lines are repeated –
often a lot !
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Hyperbole Hyperbole is an exaggeration. Example: I will love you until the ocean runs dry.
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Rhyme• The repetition of end sounds in words
– End rhymes appear at the end of two or more lines of poetry.
– Internal rhymes appear within a single line of poetry.
Ring around the rosies,A pocket full of posies,
Abednego was meek and mild; he softly spoke, he sweetly smiled.
He never called his playmates names, and he was good in running games;
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Rhyme Scheme• The pattern of end rhymes (of lines) in a poem.• Letters are used to identify a poem’s rhyme
scheme (a.k.a rhyme pattern).• The letter a is placed after the first line and all
lines that rhyme with the first line. • The letter b identifies the next line ending with
a new sound, and all lines that rhyme with it.• Letters continue to be assigned in sequence to
lines containing new ending sounds.
a.k.a =
“also known as”
This may seem confusing, but it isn’t. Really!
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Rhyme Scheme continued…
Examples:
Twinkle, twinkle little star aHow I wonder what you are. aUp above the earth so high, bLike a diamond in the sky. b
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Rhyme Scheme continued…
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.
From Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
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Denotation The strict
dictionary meaning of a word
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Connotation The emotional
and imaginative association surrounding a word
Connotation examples
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Point of View• Positive
We bought inexpensive souvenirs at the amusement park.
• Negative We bought cheap souvenirs at the
amusement park.
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Point of View: Positive• Everyone had a
(smile, smirk) on his/her face on the ride home.
• Everyone had a smile on his/her face on the way home.
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Positive? You Decide!average mediocre
spit saliva
childish childlike
antique old-fashioned