Poetic Devices

Words or phrases that are repeated in writings to give emphasis

• alliteration

• assonance

• repetition

Identify the type of rhyme.

But were we burdened with like weight of pain,

As much or more would we ourselves complain:

• half rhyme

• full rhyme

• internal rhyme

Descriptive words that appeal to the five senses

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

Identify the type of rhyme

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date

• full rhyme

• assonance

• half rhyme

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

• metaphor

• repetition

• simile

"Blazing in gold and quenching in purple,"

• imagery

• metaphor

• personification

"Moses supposes his toeses are roses"

• repetition

• assonance

• alliteration

Identify the type of rhyme.

Patience unmoved! no marvel though she pause;

They can be meek that have no other cause.

• Full rhyme

• half rhyme

• internal rhyme

Identify the type of rhyme.

Hope" is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

• full rhyme

• half rhyme

• assonance

What is full rhyme of the word Catch?

• drop

• batch

• rash