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Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices. Alliteration. When words begin with the same sound, like: Boing , broom, and beet Ammonia, about, and appoint Often, poets will alliterate with adjective-noun combinations such as sad songs or green grass.

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Poetic Devices

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  1. Poetic Devices

  2. Alliteration When words begin with the same sound, like: • Boing, broom, and beet • Ammonia, about, and appoint • Often, poets will alliterate with adjective-noun combinations such as sad songs or green grass. • Sometimes, poets want to scatter the technique to make alliteration seem less noticeable. But alliteration can also be extremely loud.

  3. “Spring” By Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as Spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing. Can you find how many times Hopkins uses alliteration? Hopkins is famous for his quirky lines, which often do not make literal sense, and which sometimes seem to be more musical than logical.

  4. Assonance is… When words share the same vowel sound, like speak, sleet, and receipt. Thou stock-dove Whose echo resounds Through the glen Robert Burns used assonance to capture the sound of an echo in the valley.

  5. Consonance is… When words share the same consonant sound, like hummingand slimmer . --Consonance lets poets pour music into lines of poetry but in an almost secret way. Both rhyme and alliteration are more noticeable than consonance.

  6. Rhyme Scheme In Rhyme Scheme, the first rhyme sound is assigned an A, the next a B, the third a C, and so on. If a four line poem has an end rhyme Between lines two and four, And a different rhyme between lines one and three, We would say that the rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAB. B A A B

  7. The Types of Rhyme When words end in the same sound, like boot and flute, that is rhyme. When a word at the end of one line, Rhymes with another at another time, That is called end rhyme. One-syllable rhymes, likemanand van, are called masculine rhymes. Two syllable rhymes, like lady and shady, are called feminine rhymes. Words that almost rhyme, like rouge and smooch, are called near rhymes.

  8. The Types of Rhyme When a word in the middle of a line rhymes with another word, that is called internal rhyme. And when words look like rhymes, but do not have rhyming sounds, like coughandrough, That is called eye-rhyme. Can you think of any words that are not spelled like each other, yet they still rhyme?

  9. Example The blackbird has fled to another retreat Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charmed me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. From “The Poplar Field” By: William Cowper Internal Rhyme between screen and scheme, Which are both masculine rhymes.

  10. SYMBOL the use of any object, person, place or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief or value a white flag, a stop sign, a heart, the Statue of Liberty

  11. Speaker • What is his or her attitude towards the subject? How can you tell? • What diction sets the tone of the poem? Remember! The speaker is not the poet!

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