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Understanding Poetry PoEtic Terms and Devices

Understanding Poetry PoEtic Terms and Devices. Rhyme is the similarity in the end-sounds of words. There are two main types of rhyme –end-rhyme and internal rhyme. ‘ Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet ’

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Understanding Poetry PoEtic Terms and Devices

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  1. Understanding Poetry PoEtic Terms and Devices

  2. Rhyme is the similarity in the end-sounds of words. There are two main types of rhyme –end-rhyme and internal rhyme. • ‘Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet’ • ‘On the outer Barcoo, where the churches are few’ RHYME

  3. Rhythm refers to the beat or pattern of stresses that occurs in poetry (and music). • ‘On the outer Barcoo, where the churches are few And men of religion are scanty On a road never cross’d ‘cept by folk that are lost One Michael Magee had a shanty’ • ‘She walks in beauty like the night’ Rhythm

  4. The two common forms of metre in poetry are the unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (iambic metre) and stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (trochaic metre) • ‘O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright’ • ‘Double, double, toil and trouble’ Fire burn and cauldron bubble.’ Metre

  5. Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words. • ‘blind, blunt, bullet-heads’ • ‘five miles meandering with mazy motion’ Alliteration

  6. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that resemble the sounds they are describing. • ‘bang’ • ‘fizz’ • ‘shriek’ OnoMatopoeia

  7. Assonance is the repetition of identical vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds. • ‘sun and hut’ Assonance

  8. To make their images come alive, poets use all kinds of word patterns that are called figures of speech. Some of the most common ones are the simile, the metaphor, personification, hyperbole and symbolism. Figures of Speech

  9. A simile makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the words ‘like’ ‘as’ and ‘than.’ • ‘He ran like the wind’ • ‘I am as warm as toast’ • ‘Her kisses were sweeter than wine’ SIMILE

  10. The metaphor takes us one step further than the simile. Instead of asking us to picture one thing as being like another, we are asked to picture one thing as being another. • ‘The hose is like a green snake on the lawn’ • ‘The hose is a green snake on the lawn’ Metaphor

  11. Personification is a special kind of metaphor in which human characteristics are given to non-human things. • ‘Blow wind, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!’ Personification

  12. The hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration for emphasis. • ‘Wild horses wouldn’t drag me away.’ Hyperbole

  13. A symbol is an object used to stand for one or more abstract ideas e.g. The dove symbolises peace, the skull and crossbones symbolises evil. In poetry, symbols are used to increase our awareness or deepen our understanding. SYMBOLISM

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