Poetry Devices and Figurative Language

Personification, hyperbole, and symbolism are all...

• Poetic Structures

• Figurative Language

• Sound Devices

• Types of Poems

Alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhyme are all...

• Poetic Structures

• Figurative Language

• Sound Devices

• Types of Poems

Which poetic structure is similar to a paragraph in prose?

• Speaker

• Couplet

• Stanza

• Refrain

Which poetic structure is similar to a narrator in prose?

• Speaker

• Couplet

• Stanza

• Refrain

Read the excerpt from the poem "Harlem." Identify the figurative language device used. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- and then run?

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

• Metaphor

• assonance

• alliteration

• simile

Repetition of initial consonant sounds: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Repeating a word, phrase, or line for emphasis.

• rhyme

• repetition

• meter

• alliteration

Stating one thing is another to create a comparison: “He’s a sly fox.”

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Use of the word like or as to create a comparison between two things: “My love is like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June” (Robert Burns).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole