Poetic Techniques

Tom's eyes were ice as he stared at her.

• Rhyme

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Repetition

“I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Caesura

• Repetition

Roses, roses! Two bucks a bunch! They say

The boys in the street, ready to sell you.

(HINT: Examples are in red)

• Caesura

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Emotive Language

Life is like a box of chocolates.

• Rhyme

• Imagery

• Repetition

• Simile

I dreamt of a drip-dropping drain in my dream.

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Imagery

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Emotive Language

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

We were running

to find what had happened

beyond the hills.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Enjambment

• Emotive Language

The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind.

• Caesura

• Personifcation

• Onomatopoeia

• Enjambment

What techniques are found in this:

We were dancing—it must have

been a foxtrot or a waltz,

something romantic but

requiring restraint,

• Enjambment

• Caesura

• Personification

• Alliteration

What techniques are found in this:

After dark, stars glisten like ice, and the distance they span

Hides something elemental. Not God, exactly. More like

Some thin-hipped glittering Bowie-being—a Starman

Or cosmic ace hovering, swaying, aching to make us see

• Caesura

• Simile

• Imagery

• Enjambment