Poetic devicesBy: Amy Pruitt

assonanceA rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are

used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words Ex: as in penitent and reticence.

The BellsbyEdgar Allan oeHear the mellow Pwedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And an in tune, What a liquid ditty floats

alliterationThe commencement of two or more stressed

syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration)Ex: as in from stem to stern.by Kelsey Gordulic

Two turtles took tea to turn time.Two turtles took time together.Together two turtles took tea to twenty tubs.Two turtles took time to turn toothbrushes.Tables turn turtles to take teach.Tubs talk to toothbrushes.Take the turtle to the tornado.

hyperboleAn extravagant statements or figure of

speech not intended to be taken literally. Ex: as in “to wait an eternity”.

imageryThe formation of mental images, figures, or

likenesses of things, or of such images .Ex: the dim imagery of a dream. The morning comes to consciousness Of faint stale smells of beer         15 From the sawdust-trampled street With all its muddy feet that press To early coffee-stands. With the other masquerades That time resumes,         20 One thinks of all the hands That are raising dingy shades In a thousand furnished rooms.  

simileA figure of speech in which two unlike things

are explicitly compared. Ex: as in “she is like a rose”.

MetaphorA figure of speech in which a term or phrase

is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.Ex: as in “a mighty fortress is our god”.

personificationThe representation of a thing or abstraction

in the form of a person .Ex: as in art. The Cat & The Fiddle Hey diddle, Diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon;The little dog laughed To see such sport,And the dish ran away with the spoon.

By Mother Goose