E9 Poetic Devices

Alliteration

• Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. 
• Repeated vowel sounds placed near each other
• Not being able to fully comprehend certain literature
• A literal situation

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Repetition

• Words that sound like their meanings
• A series of musically pleasant sounds
• The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect
• Words that sound like their meanings

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Rhyme

• words that do not sounds the same
• When words do not sound the same but are spelled similar
• Requires patterns that are sometimes called Meters
• Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike

Rhythm

• Words that convey a certain meaning
• A pattern used in poetry to give it more distinction
• a beat
• "Rain drops, drop top"

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Hyperbole

• A hyperactive word
• An outrageous exaggeration of a word
• A contradictory statement
• An indirect comparison of two like items

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Metaphor

• A direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
• A false statement that appears to be true
• A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
• An allusion of the truth

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Personification

• Attributing human characteristics to an animal, object or abstract idea
• Word play with words with totally different meanings
• An ordinary object made extraordinary by a person
• When a persons name is revealed in a poem

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Simile

• Indicating a person, place, or object. 
• When a line of a poem are similar yet mean something different
• A direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
• When two words are similar in meaning

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Rhyme Scheme

• The pattern established by the arrangement of of rhymes in a stanza or poem. 
• When the words in a poem rhyme
• When the entire poem rhymes
• A poem that has a pattern of rhyming words

Free Verse

• A poem that contains lines with no pattern or structure
• A song that can be bought for free
• Verses of a poem that have no meaning
• Lines of a poem that were written with no real purpose

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