Poetic Devices
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
How many lines are in a haiku?
3
How many lines are in a limerick?
5
How many stanzas are in a sonnet?
4
What is the bonus mark for personification poems on your website?
Attach/embed a song/video
Figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis
What is hyperbole?
How many syllables are in each line?
5-7-5
Lines 1, 3 & 5 and lines 2 & 4 are the same in a limerick. True or false?
False. Lines 1,2 & 5 and lines 3 & 4 are the same.
What is the bonus mark for sonnet's on your website?
Sonnet is embedded on your sonnet page.
Personification poems need to be 15 lines. True or false?
False
Referencing things from other stories, events, etc.
For example, her smile matched the mona lisa or he ran as fast as usain bolt.
What is allusion?
Lines 1 & 3 need to rhyme in a haiku. True or false?
False
What is the purpose of each line in a limerick?
1) Intro character
2) Give more detail on the character
3 & 4) The Problem
5) The resolution
How many syllables are in each line of a sonnet?
10
What are the rules of personification poems?
1) They need to personify an object
Simply just a weird way of saying something.
For example, a house of bones can be a skeleton
What is a kenning?
Haiku's need to be in iambic pentameter. True or false.
False. (Sonnets are usually in iambic pentameter)
The bonus mark for limerick's on your website was?
A photo must be attached to this page of your website
What is the purpose sonnets/why would a poet write one?
To praise something
Bonus: When did the first video of the house hippo come out?
12 years ago (2008)
A meter is a stressed and a unstressed syllable pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem. It is important in a poem because it serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses.
What is meter?
Writing haiku's about the environment/Friday's for Future.
What is the bonus mark for our website?
Is this an example of a limerick and why:
There was a young lady of Lynn,
Who was so uncommonly thin
That when she essayed
To drink lemonade
She slipped through the straw and fell in.
Yes.
Correct amount of lines, syllables, rhymes and structure.
Is this the correct format of a sonnet?
A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D
E
E
F
F
G
G
No-this is the correct order:
A
B
A
B
C
D
C
D
E
F
E
F
G
G
Personification poems need to be written in the form of an ode. True or false?
False.