Techniques Poets Use to Create Meaning

1. Techniques Poets Use to Create Meaning

2. Technique Definition Example

3. Refrains A group of words repeated at key intervals in poetry

4. The Climb Miley Cyrus There's always gonna be another mountainI'm always gonna wanna make it moveAlways gonna be an uphill battleSometimes I'm gonna have to loseAin't about how fast I get thereAin't about what's waitin' on the other sideIt's the climb

5. Personification Figurative Language in which non-human things or abstractions are given human qualities

6. The Stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. The run down house appeared depressed.

7. Summer GrassSummer grass aches and whispersIt wants something: it calls and sings; it poursout wishes to the overhead stars.The rain hears; the rain answers; the rain is slowcoming; the rain wets the face of the grass.

8. Hyperbole An over exaggerated figure of speech used for emphasis or effect

9. When she smiles her cheeks fall off. I'm so hungry I could eat a goose with its beak!

10. My DogLittle girl is my dog.She sleeps like a log.She has a huge mouth,And eats like a hog.In her excitementHer tail is a whip times ten.When she sees foodHer eyes start to spin.

11. Alliteration The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words

12. "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife." • Pretty Polly picked pears for preserves.

13. Caring CatsCaring cats cascade offLaughing llamas Lounging.Underneath yelling yaks,Yelling at roamingRats.

14. Onomatopoeia The use of words that sound like what they mean

15. Splat !Splat !Goes the sauce on the dough. 30 seconds 'til the game is over.Tick tock.Tick tock.

16. Ah It’s School Time!Click clack the shoes move aroundtick tick the clock strikes eightha-chew hiccup everyone feels different chit, chat talking as for the bell we wait. Ring, ring it finally happensScatter swoosh no one wants to be latescreech, yelp it is like a mad housewhen we go into school at eight

17. Simile A comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as

18. Playing the piano is likeA bird soaring in theSky. My mind is as brave as a warriorof the night.

19. BerkleyBlack as midnight, Bad as the devil With eyes like pieces of dark chocolate, He thinks he’s king of the world, My dog Berkley.He’s very much like a pig With his pudgy stomach and all. Like a leech, he’s always attached To his next meal. Even though he’s as bad as the devil, Berkley is my best fellow.

20. Metaphor A comparison of two things that are essentially different, not using like or as

21. Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net. • Cindy was such a mule. We couldn’t get her to change her mind

22. I am a RiverI am a river that finds its wayI am a candle that beams a sayI am a flower that opens wideI am a bee that works the ride.I am a caterpillar in a cocoonI am a butterfly emerging soonI am a pond that looks withinI am a man of top spin.

23. Idioms An expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words

24. Our boss will stop working and help someone at the drop of a hat. • The little boy was running through the park in his birthday suit.

25. Cat Got Your TongueI was feeling shy when my uncle came."Has the cat got your tongue?" he said.He must have meant, "Why aren't you talking?"Because my tongue was still in my head.

26. Metaphor HyperboleIdioms Alliteration Simile PersonificationOnomatopoeia Refrains