poetic elements

Poetic Elements

By Jennifer O'Connor

What are Poetic Devices?

We know that Literary devices are terms used to make writing better. These help the writer tell a story or make a point.

In Poetry, the writer uses some of these devices to express ideas or feelings and create certain effects.

COMMONLY USED POETIC DEVICES

• ALLITERATION/ ASSONANCE/ CONSONANCE

• SIMILE // METAPHOR

• PERSONIFICATION

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• REPETITION

• RHYME/ RHYME SCHEME

• VERSES/ STANZAS

Multiple Choice

a word that makes a sound (example: bang, click)

• imagery

• denotation

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

Open Ended

Write down a word that would be considered onomatopoeia.

Multiple Choice

Identify the poetic element in the following sentence: The sun kissed the horizon goodnight.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Explanation Slide...

The poetic element in the sentence is personification because the sun is given human-like qualities by 'kissing' the horizon.

Multiple Choice

What is the metaphor in the sentence: Her voice is music to my ears.

• Referring to her voice as a delicious meal

• Comparing her voice to music

• Comparing her voice to a thunderstorm

• Describing her voice as a painting

Explanation Slide...

The metaphor in the sentence is comparing her voice to music, as it implies that her voice is pleasing and enjoyable, just like music.

Multiple Choice

What is the metaphor in the sentence: The world is a stage.

• Comparing the world to a stage

• The world is a book

• The world is a computer

• The world is a playground

Explanation Slide...

The metaphor in the sentence 'The world is a stage' is comparing the world to a stage. This choice correctly identifies the metaphor by directly stating the comparison.

Multiple Choice

What do similes and metaphors have in common?

• They are examples of form.

• They don't have anything in common.

• They both use "like" or "as".

• They both compare two things.

Multiple Choice

comparing 2 unlike things using "like", "as", "than" or "resembles"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• assonance

Multiple Choice

Read the following poem. Pay attention to the lines in red. 
Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

What type of figurative language is in the red lines?

• personification 

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

​Repetition

Multiple Choice

Identify the repetition in the following sentence: The rain fell and fell, washing away all the dirt.

• washed and dirt

• fell and poured

• rained and poured

• fell and fell

Explanation Slide...

The repetition in the sentence is 'fell and fell', which emphasizes the continuous action of rain falling.

​Same letter or SOUND

Multiple Choice

If I want to include alliteration in the following sentence, which word should I choose?

" The sparkling river ______ over the mountain.

• Roared

• Swept

• trickled

Multiple Choice

True or False

Stanzas in a poem are made up by lines.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things

• exaggerate

• give person-like qualities to animals and things

• have a different meaning than the words.

Multiple Choice

I was so hungry I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• not hyperbole

Personification is attributing human traits or actions to non-human things

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

​How Poems are Structured

Multiple Choice

Stanzas are made up of _____________.

• lines

• other stanzas

• figurative language

• rhymes

Multiple Choice

What are the "paragraphs" of poems?

• sections

• stanzas

• paragraphs

• forms

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

To the swinging and the ringing

of the bells, bells, bells-

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells

Bells, bells, bells-

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

• couplet

• rhyme scheme

• simile

• repetition