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Poetic DevicesMrs. Wallers English Class
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Poetic Devices:
Objectives:
1. Become familiar with thevarious poetic devices.
2. Create examples of the various
poetic devices.
3. Use this new knowledge toidentify the poetic devices used in
the poems. 4. Have fun with poetry!
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Alliteration(Sound) The repetition of the first
consonant sound in a word. Sally sold seashells by the seashore.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers. Which of the images below does not fit?
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Alliteration
When the first sounds in words
repeat.
Examples
Welurklate. Weshootstraight.
Students: Any more examples?
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Assonance(Sound) The repetition of vowel sounds in
a series of words. The fat cat was wearing a miniature
hat as he lay down on the mat.
Mike rides his bike to the store for abag of rice.
Which of the images below does not fit?
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Consonance
When consonants repeat in the middle orend of words.
Vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.Consonants: all other letters.
Examples
Mammels named Samare clammy.
Curse, bless me now! With fierce tears I pray.
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Rhyme(Sound) The repetition of ending sounds in
words. What luck Chuckhad that he didnt
wreck his truck.
Thad was a very sad lad. Which of the images below does not fit?
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Rhyme
When words have the same end sound.Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of
lines.
Examples
Where
Fair
Air
Bear
Glare
Students: How about more exam les here?
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Onomatopoeia(Sound) The use of words which imitate
sound. Crack, pop, buzz, fizzle
When writing, italicize onomatopoeiaswhen you want them to represent thesound.
Honk! Beep! Jan placed her hands over herears while her mother drove through thetraffic, so she wouldnt have to listen to the
harsh sounds of car horns.
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Onomatopoeia
When a words pronunciation imitates its
sound.
Examples:
Buzz Fizz Woof HissClink Boom
Beep Vroom Zip
Students: add more examples to this list!
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Simile(Figurative Language) A comparison between two
objects using "like", "as", or"than.
Todd was like a bull in a china shop.
Amy was as quite as a mouse. Dennis is quicker than a cheetah.
Can you write a simile about yourself?
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Metaphor(Figurative Language) A comparison between two
dissimilar objects. Usually thewords is, are, or was are
used.
The track coach complained thatTara was a turtle and shouldnt be on
the team.
You are no Van Gogh, my art
teacher said to me. Can you write a metaphor of your own?
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Personification(Figurative Language) Giving inanimate or non-living
objects human characteristics. The trees danced in the wind.
The wind spoke to me and told me
that rain was on the way. Write a sentence using personification.
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Idiom(Figurative Language) An expression that is particular to
a group of people or culture.Idioms are NOT literal.
Its raining cats and dogs.
Why the long face? Break a leg.
If you jump the gun, youre going to
get shot in the foot.
Can you name another idiom? Helpful idiom site:
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/.
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Hyperbole(Figurative Language) A hyperbole is an exaggeration or
overstatement. It is often meantto be humorous.
I caught a fish that was as big as me!
He inhaled the sandwich. FYI: Yo Mama jokes are hyperboles!
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Understatement(Figurative Language) Downplaying a situation.
Understatement is the opposite ofhyperbole.
Jan reassured her mother that thegaping wound on her leg was just a
scratch.
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Oxymoron A figure of speech that combines
two words with oppositemeanings.
Even the word oxymoron is an
oxymoron: oxyis Greek for sharpand moronis Greek for dull.
Jumbo shrimp, act naturally, calmstorm, cold sweat, good grief
Can you think of an oxymoron? http://www.oxymoronlist.com/
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Imagery Eliciting images in the readers
mind through sensory andconcrete details.
The young freckled boy creeps
through the freshly mown yard withhis sleek, black Colt BB gun inhopes of shooting the plump blue jaysitting on the log fence.
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Repetition The technique of repeating
important lines, words, or phrasesof a poem for effect.
It is similar to a refrain in a song.
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Repetition
Repeating a word or words for effect.
Example
Nobody
No, nobodyCan make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
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Rhythm
When words are arranged in such a waythat they make a pattern or beat.
Example
There once was a girl from Chicago
Who dyed her hair pink in the bathtub
Im making a pizza the size of the sun.
Hint: hum the words instead of saying
them.
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Structure Line: similar to a sentence in
poetry. Stanza: a group of lines
separated from other lines by
breaks in the poem. Similar to aparagraph.
Meter: Using a set number of
syllables in each line.
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Practice QuizIll put some lines of poetry on the board.
Choose which techniques are used:A. Alliteration
B. consonance
C. rhythmD. rhyme
E. onomatopoeia.
Some poems use more than onetechnique.
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The cuckoo in our cuckoo clock
was wedded to an octopus.
She laid a single wooden egg
and hatched a cuckoocloctopus.
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They are building a house
half a block down
and I sit up here
with the shades downlistening to the sounds,
the hammers pounding in nails,
thack thack thack thack,and then I hear birds,
and thack thack thack,
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The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;But I hung on like death:Such waltzing was not easy.
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Homework! Oh, homework!
I hate you! You stink!I wish I could wash youaway in the sink.
Answers
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Answers
1. Repetition, rhythm, rhyme,
consonance, and lightalliteration.
2. Onomatopoeia, consonance,
repetition3. Alliteration, repetition
4. Rhythm, rhyme, light alliteration
5. Repetition, rhyme, rhythm
Poetry Fun
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