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Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices. Mrs. Williams 5 th Grade ELA 2014-2015. Personification. Personification- giving human qualities to nonliving objects- i.e.-The trees reached out to me as I walked through the woods. Imagery.

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Poetic Devices

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  1. Poetic Devices Mrs. Williams 5th Grade ELA 2014-2015

  2. Personification • Personification- giving human qualities to nonliving objects-i.e.-The trees reached out to me as I walked through the woods.

  3. Imagery • Imagery- a vivid description using words that appeal to the reader’s sense of sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch • i. e.- The aroma of the sizzling, hot pizza filled my nostrils as I entered the room.

  4. Onomatopoeia • Onomatopoeia- sound words- i.e.- Pow! Bang! Shhhh

  5. Couplet • Couplet- two line poem that rhymes at the end of each line, has same amount of syllables in each line and is usually about something silly: i.e. • I saw a brown dog, • Standing on a hog.

  6. Line • Line- the way poetry is written, several lines make a stanza; like sentences make a paragraph- i.e. • What would my heart do? • But cry, sigh and be blue.

  7. Stanza • Stanza- lines of verse forming a separate unit within a poem; like a paragraph-i.e. • I love to write, • day and night. • What would my heart do, • but cry, sigh and be blue • if I could not write? • Writing feels good, • and I know it should. • Who could have knew • that what I do, • is write, write, write!

  8. Haiku Haiku- a traditional Japanese, three-line, unrhymed poem with seventeen syllables--written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature-i.e. The last winter leavesClinging to the black branchesExplode into birds.

  9. Simile • Simile-a vivid comparison of two unlike objects, using the words like, as, than or resembles- i.e.- • The snow is as white as sheep’s wool.

  10. Metaphor • Metaphor- a vivid comparison of two unlike objects, not using the words like, as, than or resembles- i.e.- • The snow is sheep’s wool.

  11. Narrative Poem • Narrative poem- poetry that tells a story or gives an account of events, long poem with many stanzas, tells story from beginning to end

  12. Meter • Meter- the regular arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry- i.e. • UUSUSU US US • On a win-dy night when the moon is bright. • U- unstressed • S- stressed

  13. Alliteration • Alliteration- the repetition on the same sound or letter in a series of words, usually at the beginning of the word and is a consonant letter i.e.- She sells seashells down at the seashore.

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