Name the Poetic Device
“The bruised, green apple is on the table.”
Imagery
Splat!
Onomatopoeia
but a poem can love
like hold you and scold you at the same time
What Can a Poem Do by Darius Daughtry
a group of lines divided by space
> think of it like a paragraph in a poem- a way to divide a poem
Stanza
"O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;"
Simile
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Assonance
I admit the sight of the leash would excite me but only because it meant I was about to smell things you had never touched.
The Revenant by Billy Collins
a universal idea, lesson or truth
Theme
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
Metaphor
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
Consonance
before sleep, before a thin voice hissed
numbers as I spun on a wheel. I had to guess.
Ten, I kept saying, I'm only ten.
Flash Cards by Rita Dove
If a dog, man's best friend, hates their owner, that's an example of __________.
Irony!
"O Rose thou art sick."
Personification
"While I nodded, nearly napping,"
Alliteration
Don’t you fall now—
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
a similarity of sound between two words
Rhyme