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Poetic Devices
Sounds of Poetry
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What is onomatopoeia?
The use of a word whose sound suggests the meaning. BIG, BANG, BOOM, POW, CRASH!
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What does rhyme mean?
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs.
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A view about life that is not directly stated. A LESSON the author wants us to take away from the poem or story.
A theme
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What is the rhyme scheme of this passage: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
ABAAB
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A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
A stanza
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What is a simile?
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using LIKE or AS, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
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What are stanzas?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
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What is Imagery?
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
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What poetic devices are used in this poem? Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early early bird— But if you’re a worm, sleep late.
Repetition (if you're a bird, be an early bird), rhyming
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What poetic device is used? My sister is as tall as a giraffe!
Simile
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What is a metaphor?
Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics.
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What is repetition?
The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
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The attitude a poem implies.
The tone
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Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?"
bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble
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What poetic device is being used? The stars winked at me as they shined down.
Personification
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What is personification?
Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas. In the arts, personification means representing a non-human thing as if it were human.
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What is a rhyme scheme?
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.
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What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
Anger/Frustration
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What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September, I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
ABAB ABAB
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What poetic device is being used? The apple was tart like a sour patch kid!
Simile
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What is meter?
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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How are end rhymes and internal rhymes different?
End rhyme is defined as when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same. Internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines.
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The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
The mood.
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What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
Repetition
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What poetic device is being used? The brother is a monkey when climbing trees.
Metaphor