Literary Devices
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Alliteration
This poem is about desires and hate
Fire and Ice
This poet lost his parents, adopted mother, and wife
Edgar Allan Poe
This type of poem typically has 3 Lines and 17 syllables
Haiku
Figurative or Literal: She was overcome with grief.
Figurative Language
Smooth like butter
Simile
The poem takes place in Uruk
The Epic of Gilgamesh
This poet is the only poet who has won four Pulitzer prizes.
Robert Frost
This kind of poem has no strict format or structure
Figurative or Literal: I stayed up late last night, I’m so tired!
Literal Language
The wind howled in the night.
Personification
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Invictus
This person was the second poet to be invited to speak at a president's inauguration and are also featured on US quarters
Maya Angelou
A long, narrative work of poetry that are typically about the adventures or heroic journey of a character(s) from a distant past
Epic
What literary device is being used here: He was as brave as a lion
Simile
Too cool for school
Assonance
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
The Road Not Taken
This poet suffered from tuberculosis arthritis and had to have his left leg amputated.
William Ernest Henley
This type of poetry refers to a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings. Sonnets are an example of this.
Lyric
What literary device is being used here: The darkness surrounded them with a cold embrace
Personification
"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti“
Consonance
And if you lived in a place you had to speak a foreign tongue, your mother tongue would rot
Search for my tongue
This poet was born in Ahmedabad, raised in Pune, and immigrated to United States with they were 12.
Sujata Bhatt
The three main types of poetry are (hint: verse)
Formal Verse: Poetry with a strict meter (rhythmic pattern) and rhyme scheme.
Blank Verse: Poetry with a strict meter but no rhyme scheme.
Free Verse: Poetry without any strict meter or rhyme scheme.
What literary device is being used here: She has a heart of gold
Metaphor