Poetic Devices 1
A comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
A comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
A popular form of poetry during the Middle Ages, it has 14 lines, with 10 syllables each
What is a sonnet?
Your eyes shine like the brightest stars.
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What is simile?
Giving human characteristics to non-human objects
What is personification?
Description using the 5 senses
What is imagery?
"Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily
Life is but a dream
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What is repetition?
All the world is a stage and everyone has their part.
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What is metaphor?
A pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines of poetry
What is rhyme scheme?
Reusing words or phrases over and over in a poem or story
What is repetition?
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!"
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What is hyperbole?
"I know a little about computers", said Steve Jobs.
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What is understatement?
Extreme exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
Taking a real-life situation and reducing it to make it ridiculous
What is understatement?
A
A
B
B
C
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What is rhyme scheme?
The trees danced in the breeze.
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What is personification?
Taking a real-life situation and blowing it out of proportion to make it ridiculous
What is exaggeration?
The pattern of syllables or "beat" of a poem
What is rhythm?
She sells seas shells by the sea shore.
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What is alliteration?
The bitter cold bit at my ears and froze my nose.
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What is imagery?