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Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices. Introduction to Literature. Figurative Language. Metaphor : direct comparison of two things. Implies that one object is another object (doesn’t use “like” or “as”) Ex. Life is a box of chocolates. Ex. Clare is a flighty sparrow.

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Poetic Devices

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  1. Poetic Devices Introduction to Literature

  2. Figurative Language • Metaphor: direct comparison of two things. Implies that one object is another object (doesn’t use “like” or “as”) • Ex. Life is a box of chocolates. • Ex. Clare is a flighty sparrow. • Simile: uses like or as to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas • Ex. Life is like a box of chocolates • Ex. Clare is as flighty as a sparrow. • Personification: A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to non-human things • Ex. The wind whispered through the trees.

  3. Musical devices: devices that give a poem a melodious quality • Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sound • Ex. Peter Piperpicked a peck of pickled peppers • Assonance: repetition of a vowel sound • Ex. On a proud round cloud in a white high night. • Ex. “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. • (Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee”) • Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds (especially near the end of a word) • Ex. Clocks on fox tick. Clocks on Knox tock. Sixsick bricks tick. Six sick chicks tock. (k, ks and x)

  4. Onomatopoeia: A word that imitates the sound(s) it represents • Ex. buzz = sound of a bee • Ex. Sizzle, hiss, splash • Hyperbole- A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. • Ex. This poetry project is killing me. • Ex. This class lasts forever.

  5. Repetition: the use of any element of language (sound, word, phrase, sentence) more than once. • Imagery: Descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader. • Symbol: an object that represents something else. • Ex: the color black- death, sadness, depression, etc. • Allusion: a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

  6. Rhyme: the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words Ex: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I could. - Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” Rhyme scheme: regular pattern of rhyming words that appear in a poem (AABB, ABAB, ABAA, etc.) -The example above is ABAA

  7. Meter Meter: the rhythmical pattern of a poem, determined by the number and types of stresses or beats, in each line. • I wandered lonely as a cloud. • most common is iambic pentameter (unstressed, stressed) • All TYPES of different meters • Ex. Romeo and Juliet Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

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