Poetic Devices

A poem always…

• Uses imaginative language

• Rhymes

• Uses simple languages to get the facts across

People used poems to tell

stories because…

• A poem is harder to remember than a story

• A poem is much longer than a story

• Rhymes and rhythm make a poem easier to remember

A rhyme is…

• When two words share the same first letter

• When two words sound alike

• When two words mean the same thing

Alliteration is…

• Another word for tongue-twister

• Two words or more that start with the same sound

• A really hard to read poem

What is used when one thing is compared to another?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Rhythm

A metaphor is…

• Two words that start with the same sound

• Used when describing something as if it were something else

• Two words that rhyme and mean the same thing

Giving human feelings and actions to objects is known as…

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Magnification

And I begged the little leaves to lean

Low and together for a safe screen;

What phrase in the lines above is alliteration?

• little leaves to learn

• low and together

• and I begged

Click-clack, click-clack, the hoofs went past,

Who takes the dead coach travels fast,

What are rhyming words in the lines above?

• click - takes

• past - fast

• hoofs - coach

Big-voiced lassies made their banjos bang,

What poetic device is used in the underlined phrase?

• simile

• personification

• alliteration