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POETIC DEVICES The Sounds of Poetry Source: gurative.../ poetic - devices -lesson. pp

SIMILE When two items are compared using the words, like or as. Examples She runs as fast a as a cheetah.

HYPERBOLE Using words to exaggerate and overemphasize a point that the author is trying to make. Examples Ms. Pinkney could eat 14,000 Thanksgiving dinners right now.

ALLITERATION When the first sounds in words repeat. Example P eter P iper p icked a p ickled p epper. Slim-pinioned swallows sweep and pass

METAPHOR Comparing two object together WITHOUT using like or as. Example The feather floated lightly in the air flowing as bald eagle surviving the Earth.

PERSONIFICATION Objects possess human features. Example The bells sing out, “Yankee Doodle,” on top of the chapel.

ONOMATOPOEIA When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound. Examples BuzzFizzWoof HissClinkBoom BeepVroomZip

REPETITION Repeating a word or words for effect. Example When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day.

RHYME When words have the same end sound. Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines. Examples Where Fair Air Bear Glare

CONNOTATION (FIGURATIVE MEANING)  Connotations are the associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition. Many words have connotations that create emotions or feelings in the reader. Example:  And once again, the autumn leaves were falling.  This phrase uses ‘autumn’ to signify something coming to an end. Source:

DENOTATION (LITERAL MEANING)  Denotation refers to the use of the dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word. Example:  “They built a house.”  In the above sentence, house is meant literally as in a building where a family lives. If the word "home" was used instead in the above sentence in place of "house", the meaning would not be so literal as there are many emotions associated with the word "home" beyond simply the structure where people live (connotation) Source:

PRACTICE QUIZ I’ll put some lines of poetry on the board. Write down which techniques are used: Alliteration, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and onomatopoeia. Some poems use more than one technique.

1 Oh! To be a wave Splintering on the sand, Drawing back, but leaving Lingeringly the land.

2 Drip--hiss--drip--hiss– fall the raindrops on the oaken log which burns, and steams, and smokes the ceiling beams. Drip--hiss--the rain never stops.

3 A trumpet-vine covered an arbour With the red and gold of its blossoms. Red and gold like the brass notes of Trumpets.

4 I passed through the gates of the city, The streets were strange and still, Through the doors of the open churches The organs were moaning shrill.

5 Upon the enchanted ladder of his rhymes, Round after round and patiently The poet ever upward climbs.

ANSWERS 1.Rhythm, rhyme, consonance, alliteration. 2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition, rhyme 3. Alliteration, consonance, repetition 4. Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration 5. Repetition, rhyme, light alliteration