Literary Devices
A poetic device where a writer directly compares two different things without using "like" or "as" within the sentence.
What are "Metaphors"?
A poetic device that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as," in the sentence.
What is a "Simile"?
A writing piece that tells a story using stanzas and lines. It is similar to a short story because it has a plot and characters within it.
What is a "Narrative Poem"?
Name 5 Poetic Devices.
What are:
metaphors Picture Imagery
similes Hyperbole
personification Onomatopoeia
idioms Tone / Mood
Syllables
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
What is rhyme?
What is "To Infer"?
In poetry, this sound device provides the overall feeling of what the author is inferring in the poem.
What is "MOOD".
A literary device that involves two or more words that appear close together and have the same initial stressed consonant syllable. “Good grief” and “red rose” are two examples.
What is an "Alliteration"?
Good readers do this as they are reading to help them connect with a story or poem.
What is "PICTURE IMAGERY"?
A literary device that uses exaggeration to emphasize a point.
What is "HYPERBOLE"?
Name 3 ways that Narrative Stories are different from Narrative Poems.
Narrative Stories Narrative Poems
Paragraphs Stanzas
Sentences Lines
Paragraph Breaks Line Breaks
The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
A poetic device where human qualities are given to non-human things like animals, objects, or ideas, allowing the writer to describe them with human characteristics, emotions, and actions, often creating a more vivid and relatable image for the reader.
What is "Personification"?
The Three Little Pigs, The Cat in the Hat, or Curious George.
What is a narrative short story?
"Sick" by Shel Silverstein.
What is a "Narrative Poem"?
The use of words that imitate sounds in a poem.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is just a fancy way of saying "regular writing" - like the kind you see in a storybook, where sentences are written in a normal way, without special patterns or rhymes, just like how you talk every day; it's the opposite of poetry which often has special rhythms and rhymes.
What is "PROSE".
This is just a fancy way of saying "regular writing" - like the kind you see in a storybook, where sentences are written in a normal way, without special patterns or rhymes, just like how you talk every day; it's the opposite of poetry which often has special rhythms and rhyme schemes.
What is "PROSE"?
Sally sells sea shells down by the seashore.
What is an "ALLITERATION"?