Poetic Devices
What are the underlined words an example of?
William took the red ball,
And threw it against the wall.
Rhyme
What is rhyme scheme?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
Identify an example of assonance.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, we know that the old woman bringing the apple is the wicked queen who wants to kill Snow White, but she does not. She purchases the apple, takes a bite, and falls.
Dramatic Irony
Create your own simile.
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Give an example of portmanteau.
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What is onomatopoeia?
Words that sound like sounds
Give an example of assonance.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
The "I" sound
It is very cold outside and Lemony Snicket comments, "Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate; if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.”
Verbal Irony
Identify the poetic device.
That mall is large enough to have its own zip code.
Hyperbole
Give an example of anaphora.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
"You may"
Define hyperbole.
Give an example of consonance from the poem excerpt.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
The "N" sound
The "T" sound
Throughout the books, Harry Potter is expected to kill Voldemort, but he eventually realizes he must allow Voldemort to kill him instead.
Situational Irony
What is this called?
I went to a seafood dance last week, and pulled a mussel.
Pun
Identify the example of personification.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
Heaven is given human qualities (gold complexion dimmed)
What is a metaphor?
A figure of speech that makes an indirect comparison between two things that are not similar.
Identify an example of consonance.
There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
The "N" sound
The "R" sound
The "S" sound
The "M" sound
A girl in a horror film runs and hides in a closet where the killer just went.
Dramatic Irony
Create your own metaphor.
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Identify the alliteration.
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And- -which is more- -you’ll be a Man, my son!
The "F" sounds
The "M" sounds
The "S" sounds
Explain an allusion.
A reference to a person, event, period of history, place, or to another well-known work of literature.
Identify an example of assonance.
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
Cronus believed a prophecy that he would be overthrown by his children so he devoured any children Rhea, his wife, had. However, she tricked him with Zeus, giving Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes instead of the baby. Zeus later rescued his siblings and they overthrew their father, which was unexpected for Cronus, who thought he had outsmarted his fate.
Situational Irony
Create your own example of imagery.
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