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Poetic Devices (25)

Poetic Devices (25). Write the definition on the right column and the example under the vocabulary word on the left. LRA 3.7: Recognize and define various literary devices. Alliteration. The repetition of initial consonant sounds. Example: Hannah’s home hopefully has heat. Assonance.

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Poetic Devices (25)

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  1. Poetic Devices (25) Write the definition on the right column and the example under the vocabulary word on the left. LRA 3.7: Recognize and define various literary devices.

  2. Alliteration • The repetition of initial consonant sounds. Example: Hannah’s home hopefully has heat.

  3. Assonance • The repetition of vowel sounds • Example: “Try to light the fire”

  4. Imagery • Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or combination of senses. • Example: “Fresh dirt under my fingernails/And I can smell hot asphalt/Cars screech to a halt to let me pass” Think Pair Share: What three senses do you hear in this song?

  5. Metaphor • A comparison between two unlike objects that DOES NOT use like or as; it sometimes uses IS. • Example: “Your love is my drug.” Think Pair Share: Compare homework to an object or idea . “Homework is….”

  6. Meter • The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

  7. Onomatopoeia • The use of words which imitate sounds. • Example: “Boom boom pow”

  8. Personification • A figure of speech that gives animals, ideas, or inanimate objects human abilities or traits. • Example: “While my guitar gently weeps” • Think Pair Share: Personify your pen or pencil. What is it doing?

  9. Repetition • The repeating of words, phrases, lines or stanzas • Example: “Turn around…Every now and then”

  10. Rhyme • The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words. • Example: Bright and light.

  11. Simile • A comparison of two unlike objects using LIKE or AS • Example: “And like a ghost, I’ll be gone.” • Think Pair Share: Create a simile about sleep: “Sleep is like a ______”

  12. Stanza • A grouping of two or more lines of a poem • A stanza is like a paragraph in a poem!

  13. Tone • The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience. • Think about how the writer seems to FEEL in the poem!

  14. Speaker • The voice that addresses the reader in the poem. • Look at the characteristics of the narrator: young or old, happy or sad, critical or joyful?

  15. Allusion • A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, politics, religion, sports, science, or some other branch of culture. • Example: “With her baby Louis Vuitton under her under arm” • Think Pair Share: What is the tone of “Gold Digger”? Who is the speaker?

  16. Oxymoron • A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a short phrase. • Example: “Hurts so good”

  17. Hyperbole • An exaggeration • Example: “I will walk 500 miles.” Think Pair Share: Name one hyperbole you’ve heard Ms. Wakefield use before.

  18. Diction • The author’s choice of words

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