Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices

There are eight types of poetic devices.

Types Of Poetic Devices

1. Alliteration

2. Imagery

3. Assonance

4. Hyperbole

5. Repetition

6. Rhyme

7. Simile

8. Stanza

Imagery

When someone is telling a sentence or a very short story and you or anyone can imagine is known as imagery.

example: Sea sells seashells at the shore.

Alliteration

When a same consonant sound is repeated twice or more than twice in a sentence, it is alliteration.

example: Sea sells seashells at the shore.

Assonance

When a consonant sound is repeated twice or more than twice in a sentence, it is alliteration.

example: Go and mow the farm.

Time to answer few questions

Please answer few questions....

Multiple Choice

Which is the Poetic device in the sentence "Please pour the batter into plastic bag"

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

• None of the above

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The stuntman flipped from a forty-foot ferris wheel. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration 
• metaphor 
• simile

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Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• metaphor
• alliteration
• simile

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Zack watched zebras zip by. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• metaphor
• alliteration
• simile

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My neighbours are not normally noisy. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• metaphor 
• simile
• alliteration

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Popcorn! peanuts!
Clowns in the crowd
Laughing ladies
Giggling girls
Beaming boys
Agile acrobats
Sensational circus!
This is an example of a/an: 

• metaphor
• simile
• alliteration

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Don ate his salad like a vacuum cleaner. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration
• metaphor 
• simile

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Mary's hair was a fierce lion's main.
This is an example of a/an: 

• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

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She happily helped the homeless.
This is an example of a/an: 

• metaphor
• alliteration
• simile. 

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The pool glittered like a mirror. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• metaphor
• alliteration 
• simile

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"Lemon and lime flavour," growled the lion. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

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The bird flew as fast as the wind. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

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A tutor who tuted the flute,
tried to tutor two tooter's to toot. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration

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Your brain is a computer. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• metaphor
• simile
• alliteration

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The gentle giant jumped in jubilation. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration

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Max is a pig when he eats.
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?

• Mr. Brown is as smart as they come, he can go like a hippopotamus chewing gum!
• He can go like a train choo choo choo choo
• He can go like a cow, he can go moo moo
• ...like a big cat drinking slurp slurp slurp

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a simile?

• We were all knitting Thneedsjust as busy as bees,to the sound of the choppingof Truffula Trees.
• The touch of their tuftswas much softer than silk.And they had the sweet smellof fresh butterfly milk.
• But I'm also in charge of the Brown Bar-ba-lootswho played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suitsand happily lived, eating Truffula Fruits.
• UNLESS someone like youcares a whole awful lot,nothing is going to get better.It's not.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT an example of repetition?

• Would you eat them in a box?  Would you eat them with a fox?
• I do not like them here or there, I do not like them anywhere!
• I would not could not with a goat, I would not could not in a boat!
• Say! I like green eggs and ham!

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of hyperbole?

• Kid, you'll move mountains!
• You've got brains in your head, you've got feet in your shoes...
• You'll find the bright places where boom bands are playing!
• You'll find the high flyers who fly to great heights!

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• What do you know about tweetle beetles?
• Ben's bent broom breaks
• New socks, two socks.  Whose socks? Sue's socks.
• Fox in socks.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of alliteration?

• Barber baby bubbles and a bumblebee
• Jerry Jordan's jelly jar and jam
• Rosy's going riding on her red rinoceros
• For I had a story that no one could beat, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street!

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.  Your heart's an empty hole.
• It came without packages, boxes or bags!
• Roast beast is a feast I can't stand in the least!
• It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of rhyme?

• I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

• And our fish came down, too. He fell into a pot. He said, "Do I like this? Oh, no! I do not!"

• Then he shut up the things in a box with a hook. And the cat went away with a sad kind of look.

• And THEN! Who was back in the house? Why, the cat!

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme pattern?

• AA B CC B

• AA BB CC

• AB AB AC

• AA BC BC

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The general topic of a poem.

• personification

• mataphor

• meter

• theme

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The general topic of a poem.

• personification

• mataphor

• meter

• theme

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The division in a poem based on the number of lines it contains.

• stanza

• white space

• meter

• line break

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The pattern of beats or stresses.

• rhythm

• rhyme

• repetition

• metaphor

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I had an orange cat

that was extremely fat

• white space

• blank verse

• refrain

• rhyme

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Sounds, words, or phrases used again and again.

• refrain

• repetition

• alliteration

• meter

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A line or lines that are repeated in a poem.

• refrain

• repetition

• alliteration

• stanza

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The rain tapped a tune on my window.

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

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CRASH!

• personification

• allireration

• onomatopoeia

• rhythm

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Poetry that does not follow a set pattern or form.

• blank verse

• free verse

• refrain

• mataphor

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An unrhymed verse.

• blank verse

• free verse

• simile

• stanza

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse creating a rhythm.

• rhythm

• rhyme

• meter

• personification

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Used to show a slight pause when reading poetry.

• refrain

• meter

• line break

• white space

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The use of sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• figurative language

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She was as wise as an owl.

• metaphor

• rhyme

• meter

• simile

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Comparing one thing to another without using "like" or "as".

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• blank verse

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

• meter

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

• meter