Language
Poetic device which uses the words 'like' or 'as' to compare things.
Simile
Japanese poetry with three lines.
Haiku
World's most famous playwright and poet.
William Shakespeare
Using one thing to represent an idea. EG. 'A rose represents love'
Symbolism
When you compare two things saying they are the same.
Metaphor
Traditional Irish poems with a distinct rhyming pattern.
Limerick
Wrote The man from Snowy River
Banjo Patterson
The number of lines in a sonnet.
Twelve or fourteen
To give human characteristics to non-human things in poems.
Personification
Poems without a rhyming pattern
Free verse
'Baby you're a firework' is an example of what poetic device?
Metaphor
Repeat the whole poem 'Flea'
Fleas, Adam had 'em.
Sounds used as words.
Onomatopoeia
Poetry performed live with some dramatic actions.
Slam poetry
Haiku are most often about this subject matter.
Nature or environment
Who wrote the famous ancient Greek poem The Illiad and the Odyssey.
Homer
Extreme exaggeration for effect.
Hyperbole
Long poems that tell stories.
Ballads
'Slippery, slithering, slimy, snake' is an example of what poetic device?
Alliteration
'The stars danced playfully in the moonlit night sky' is an example of what poetic language device?
Personification