Poetic Devices
What is a Simile?
A figure of speech that directly compares two different things using like, as, or than.
Krispy Kreme
Alleteration
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Crispy, crunchy leaves
Covering the moist, damp ground
Somewhere a bird chirps
Haiku Poem
200 pts
What is Imagery
Imagery is used to create an image in the readers mind
As Busy as a Bee
Simile
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FRIEND Fun times shared
Really great memories
Inside jokes always Every day laughing
Never truly apart
Dependable company
Acrostic Poem
300 pts
What is Alleteration
a literary device that repeats the same consonant sound
The stars danced playfully across the night sky.
Personification
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The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Free Verse
400 pts
What is a metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things by stating one thing is the other, without using "like" or "as"
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
Alleteration
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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Free Verse Poem
500 pts
What are Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words
Boom!
Onomatopoeia
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Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart—
they do no wrong
but follow his ways.
Psalm 119
Acrostic poem
600 pts