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Poetry Device Notes

Simile . Def: 2 things are compared using

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Poetry Device Notes

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    1. Poetry Device Notes Definition Use in Modern Day Language

    2. Simile Def: 2 things are compared using like or as Lang: Life is like a box of chocolates Example: The Base Stealer

    3. The Base Stealer by Robert Francis Poised between going on and back, pulled Both ways taut like a tightrope-walker, Fingertips pointing the opposites, Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on, Running a scattering of steps sidewise, How he teeters, skitters, tingles, teases, Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird, He's only flirting, crowd him, crowd him, Delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate now!

    4. Metaphor Def: 2 things compared without using like or as Lang: that test was a piece pf cake Example: The Garden Hose

    5. The Garden Hose Beatrice Janosco

    6. Symbol Def: Word or image that represents something else Lang: a heart symbolizes love Example: Fifteen

    7. Fifteen William Stafford

    8. We could find the end of a road, meet the sky out on Seventeenth. I thought about hills, and patting the handle got back a confident opinion. On the bridge we indulged a forward feeling, a tremble. I was fifteen. Thinking, back farther in the grass I found the owner, just coming to where he had flipped over the rail. He had blood on his hand, was pale- I helped him walk to his machine. He ran his hand over it, called me a good man, roared away. I stood there fifteen.

    9. Hyperbole Def: an exaggerated statement used to heighten effect Lang: yo mama jokes Yo mama so stupid it took her 2 hours to watch 60 Minutes! Yo mama so ugly they filmed "Gorillas in the Mist" in her shower Example: For a Hopi Silversmith

    10. For a Hopi Silversmith Joy Harjo

    11. Alliteration Def: repetition of consonant sounds Lang: Sally sells seashells by the seashore Example: Fast Run in the Junkyard

    12. Run Fast in The Junkyard Jeannette Nicholas

    13. back down, flinging hat racks, burlap sacks, chairs cropped of backs and flotsam crockery, breezed in league boots back out of everybodys past hazards, up to the road to break tar bubbles all-the-way-home where things were wearing out as fast as we were grwoing up.

    14. Personification Def: giving human qualities to inanimate objects Lang: the storm ruthlessly devoured everything in its path Example: Guilt

    15. Guilt James Kavanaugh

    16. Onomatopoeia Def: use of words to imitate sounds Lang: Clap, boom Example: The Rusty Spigot

    17. The Rusty Spigot Eve Merriam

    18. Allusion Def: references to or reminder of something Example: To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph

    19. To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph Anne Sexton

    20. Apostrophe A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead OR something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present.

    21. Apostrophe Examples Take Something Like a Star: the poem begins, "O Star," He addresses the star throughout the poem. Tree at my Window: He addresses the tree throughout: "Tree at my window, window tree." Mending Wall: speaking to the stones that make up the barrier, he says, "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"

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