1. Poetic Devices

2. Literal Language:
the ordinary language of everyday speech that states facts or ideas directly

3. language used for descriptive effect
Figurative Language:
language used for descriptive effect

4. Imagery: Definition
The collection of sensory images (smell, taste, touch, sound, sight) in a poem or another work of literature

5. Types of Images 1. Auditory (sound) 2. Gustatory (taste)
3. Olfactory (smell)
4. Tactile (touch)
5. Visual (sight)

6. “Blue waves whitened on a cliff”
Imagery: Example
“Blue waves whitened on a cliff”
What sense is appealed to in this example?_______

7. Imagery: Your own example
The bunny ______________________________________________________________________.
What sense is appealed to in your description?_________

8. Alliteration: Definition
The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginnings of words

9. Alliteration: Example
“Slowly, silently, now the moon / Walks the night in her silver shoon.” (from “Silver,” by Walter de la Mare)

10. Alliteration: Your own example
Make up an alliterative statement based on your name: __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________

11. Hyperbole: Definition
A great exaggeration for effect

12. “I’ve told you a million times today to clean your room!”
Hyperbole: Example
“I’ve told you a million times today to clean your room!”

13. Hyperbole: Your own example
My brother or sister is a _________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

14. Onomatopoeia: Definition
A word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes

15. Onomatopoeia: Examples
Buzz
Ring
Crow

16. Onomatopoeia: Your own examples
List your own examples:
_____________

17. Personification: Definition
A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is described as having human form or characteristics

18. Personification: Example
“The rainbow danced across the sky.”

19. Personification: Your own example
“The clock ________________________________________________________________________.”

20. Something that stands for something else
Symbol: Definition
Something that stands for something else

21. A lion symbolizes _____________ Two roads symbolize ______________
Symbol: Example
A lion symbolizes _____________
Two roads symbolize ______________

22. Symbol: Your own example
Come up with another common symbol and what it stands for: _____________________________________________________________________

23. Simile: Definition
A figure of speech that directly compares two seemingly unlike things by using a word such as “like” or “as”

24. “His face was creased like an often-read letter.”
Simile: Example
“His face was creased like an often-read letter.”

25. Simile: Your own example
His eyes darted around like ______________________________________________________________.

26. Metaphor: Definition
A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two seemingly unlike things (without using “like” or “as”)

27. He was a lion on the battlefield.
Metaphor: Example
He was a lion on the battlefield.

28. Metaphor: Your own example
School is __________________________________________________________________.