1. REVIEW OF POETIC DEVICES

2. Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more stressed syllables.

3. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

4. Ellipsis Omission of a Word or Short Phrase Easily Understood in Context.

5. Excerpt from “We Were VOID” Survival was to be like them, the Khmer Rouge. We stole... We lied... We cheated... We did not trust... We hated each other... we hated ourselves!

6. Exaggeration for poetic effect

7. Appetite In a house the size of a postage stamp lived a man as big as a barge. His mouth could drink the entire river You could say it was rather large For dinner he would eat a trillion beans And a silo full of grain, Washed it down with a tanker of milk As if he were a drain.

8. ONOMATOPOEIA a word that imitates the sound it represents hiss

9. An indirect comparison that uses words such as like, as, or than, or by a verb such as appears or seems.

10. Your eyes are like stars shining brightly in the sky.

11. A direct comparison between dissimilar things.

12. Tranquility Time slides a gentle ocean waves upon waves, washing the shore, loving the shore. Time is being compared to an ocean

13. Jumbo Shrimp

14. Assigning human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts.

15. “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.”

16. Poets also use font size, style, bold face, underlining, italicizing for effect. Do not use just to be “cute.” Think about why you would choose that style, etc.