Poetic Devices- FOCUS SLIDES

FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

& POETIC DEVICES

Review

Figurative Language
- Simile
- Metaphor/ Extended Metaphor
- Hyperbole
- Idiom- An expression
- Personification
- Onomatopoeia
- Oxymoron- Opposite terms
- Alliteration
- Symbolism
- Allusion- Reference to something famous
- Imagery/ Sensory Details

CONSONANCE

• Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .

• The repeated consonant sounds can be

anywhere in the words

● “silken,sad, uncertain, rustling . . “

ASSONANCE

• Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines

of poetry.

● (Often creates near rhyme.)

● Lake Fate

Base

Fade

● (All share the long “a” sound.)

ASSONANCE cont.

Examples of ASSONANCE:

“Slow the low gradual moan came in the

snowing.”

- John Masefield

“Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.”

- William Shakespeare

The repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines IN THE BEGINNING of multiple line

Example:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."

Anaphora

Repeating words, phrases, lines or stanzas

Typically used to draw emphasis to something

Example:

"The old man walked down the street, down the street, down the street"

Repetition

Repetition and Anaphora

Multiple Choice

Descriptive words that appeal to the senses

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• imagery

Multiple Choice

An obvious exaggeration to make a point or add excitement

• assonance

• repetition

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Giving human qualities to non-living objects

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

A word that spells out a sound

• assonance

• hyperbole

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

The repetition of inner vowel (a-e-i-o-u) sounds in nearby words

• assonance

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Multiple Choice

The repetition of two or more of the same beginning consonant sound close together

• simile

• imagery

• consonance

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

The repetition of inner and ending consonant sounds of nearby words that do not rhyme

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"Buzz - says the great buzzing bee."

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

"The air is like a butterfly"

• methaphor

• simile

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

"To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells..."

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Danny's room is a pig-sty.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Multiple Choice

"Blazing in gold and quenching in purple,"

• metaphor

• consonance

• imagery

• personification

Multiple Choice

"There was a Young Lady whose nose, Was so long that it reached to her toes;"

• consonance

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• repetition

Multiple Choice

"Moses supposes his toeses are roses"

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

Multiple Choice

I dropped my sock in the thick, sticky mud.

• consonance

• metaphor

• personification

• repetition

Multiple Choice

The crazy car is colorful.

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

Multiple Choice

A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

POETRY

➢ A type of literature

that expresses
ideas, feelings, or
tells a story in a
specific form
(usually using lines
and stanzas)

POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY

POET

• The poet is the author

of the poem.

SPEAKER

• The speaker of the

poem is the “narrator”
of the poem.

POETRY FORM

• FORM - the

appearance of the
words on the page

• LINE - a group of

words together on one
line of the poem

• STANZA - a group of

lines arranged together

● A word is dead
● When it is said,

● Some say.

● I say it just

● Begins to live

● That day.

Stanzas

2 lines 4 lines 5 lines 6 lines

Couplet Quatrain Quintet Sestet

RHYME

• Words sound alike

because they share the
same ending vowel
and consonant sounds.

• (A word always

rhymes with itself.)

● LAMP
● STAMP

● Share the short “a”

vowel sound

● Share the combined

“mp” consonant sound

END RHYME

• A word at the end of one line rhymes with a

word at the end of another line

● Hector the Collector

● Collected bits of string.

● Collected dolls with broken heads
● And rusty bells that would not ring.

INTERNAL RHYME

• A word inside a line rhymes with another

word on the same line.

● Once upon a midnight dreary, while I

pondered weak and weary.

●From “The Raven”

●by Edgar Allan Poe

NEAR RHYME

• a.k.a imperfect

rhyme, close rhyme

• The words share

EITHER the same
vowel or consonant
sound BUT NOT
BOTH

● ROSE
● LOSE

● Different vowel
sounds (long “o” and

“oo” sound)

● Share the same

consonant sound

RHYME SCHEME

• A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end

rhyme, but not always).

• Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds

to be able to visually “see” the pattern. (See next
slide for an example.)

SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME

● The Germ

● by Ogden Nash

● A mighty creature is the germ,

● Though smaller than the pachyderm.

● His customary dwelling place
● Is deep within the human race.

● His childish pride he often pleases
● By giving people strange diseases.
● Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?

● You probably contain a germ.

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a
b
b
c
c
a
a

THE END