Welcome to Poetic Devices

1. Welcome to Poetic Devices Learn literary elements frequently used in poetry

2. Program Objectives Instructions Figurative Language Devices Metaphor, Simile, Personification Sound Devices Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Imagery Practice Assessment Discussion Board Menu

3. Program Objectives • The users will develop their comprehension of the poetic devices by identifying examples of the devices in practice exercises. • The users will demonstrate their comprehension of the poetic devices by successfully identifying the device in sample poems with at least seventy percent efficiency. • The users will evaluate their attitude towards poetry, based on success with manipulation of the poetic devices.

4. Directions for Tutorial: • Read the definitions and examples presented for each poetic device. • Practice identifying the definitions of the poetic device by matching the device with the correct definition • Assess your comprehension of the poetic devices with test where you select the correct device based on the sample line of poetry that is presented.

5. Figurative Language • Figurative Language is a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be taken literally • Figurative Language consists of poetic • devices such as metaphor, simile, • personification, and hyperbole

6. Metaphor Figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles

7. Metaphor All the world is a stage -William Shakespeare Hope is the thing with feathers. -Emily Dickinson Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly -Langston Hughes

8. Figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using an explicit word such as like, as, resembles, or than. Simile

9. Simile What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? -Langston Hughes Life is like a box of chocolates. -Forrest Gump And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

10. Personification A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

11. Personification This poetry gets bored of being alone… - Hugo Margenat Time, you old gypsy man, Will you not stay? -Ralph Hodgson The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in, And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before. - Robert Frost

12. Hyperbole Exaggeration to express strong emotion or for comic effect. Also called overstatement

13. Hyperbole This limousine is as long as an ocean liner.

14. Sound Devices Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia

15. Alliteration Repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem.

16. Alliteration Success and emotional symmetry are simply hard to sustain. -John Tolliver Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. -Anonymous Doing her woman’s workwas a hard art to practice when the summer sun would bar the floor I swept till she was satisfied. -Julia Alvarez

17. Repetition of the vowel sound followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables Assonance

18. Assonance Thou fosterchild of silence and slowtime -John Keats

19. Consonance Repetition of the ending consonant sound, especially in words that are close together in a poem.

20. Consonance A think tank is the sound of wind, rushing and wishing. - John Tolliver

21. Onomatopoeia The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.

22. Onomatopoeia Tick, tock, tick, tock the clock continues… Boom! Cataclysmic explosion. Chirp, chirp. Chirp, chirp. Happy birds on a summer’s day.

23. Imagery Is defined as language that creates a mental image by appealing to the five senses: Sight Sound Smell Touch Taste

24. Imagery Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match… - Robert Browning Desolate and lone All night long on the lake Where fog trails and mist creeps, The whistle of a boat Calls and cries unendingly, Like some lost child In tears and trouble Hunting the harbor’s breast And the harbor’s eyes. -Carl Sandburg

25. Practice Directions: Type the letter of the correct definition beside the poetic device.

26. 1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Onomatopoeia 4. Imagery 5. Personification 6. Alliteration 7. Assonance 8. Consonance 9. Figurative Language Repetition of the beginning consonant sound Comparison of two unlike things Words that appeal to the five senses Words that represent sounds Words or phrases not to be taken literally Repetition of the ending consonant sound Giving animals or objects human characteristics Repetition of vowel sounds Comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or resembles. practice

27. Assessment Armed with your knowledge of the poetic devices, you are now ready to analyze sample lines of poetry and determine which device they represent.

28. Question 1 Which poetic device is the line of poetry which reads, “princes and paupers are people a word apart” an example of? • A) personification • B) alliteration • C) metaphor • D) simile

29. Question 2 What poetic device is the line “the hands of time molded my distaste” an example of? • A) personification • B) alliteration • C) metaphor • D) simile

30. Question 3 What poetic device is the line “her smile is like the noon day sun” an example of? • A) personification • B) alliteration • C) metaphor • D) simile

31. Question 4 The line from Psalm 22 that reads “I am poured out like water…my heart is like wax” is an example of: • A) Alliteration • B) Simile • C) Metaphor • D) Personification

32. Question 5 In “Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the line which reads “It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers” is an example of • A) Assonance • B) Alliteration • C) Personification • D) Onomatopoeia

33. Question 6 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” contains a line that reads “O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn’s being.” This is an example of: • A) Alliteration • B) Assonance • C) Consonance • D) Onomatopoeia

34. Question 7 In “Summer Remembered” by Isabella Gardner the line which reads “The pizzicato plinkle of ice in an auburn uncle’s amber glass” is an example of: • A) Assonance • B) Consonance • C) Onomatopoeia • D) simile

35. Question 8 Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” contains a line which reads “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.” This is an example of: • A) Assonance • B) Consonance • C) Onomatopoeia • D) Alliteration

36. Question 9 The line which reads “I was a lonely cloud” is an example of: • A) Simile • B) Metaphor • C) Alliteration • D) Assonance

37. Question 10 Emily Dickinson’s lines of poetry which read “The Mountain sat upon the Plain/ In his tremendous Chair--/ His observation omnifold,/ His inquest, everywhere—” This is an example of: • A) Personification • B) Metaphor • C) Simile • D) Alliteration

38. Congratulations You have successfully completed the assessment page. You answered the assessment questions with ___ % accuracy.

39. Evaluation Check the response that pertains to you: _____ I feel more confident in my ability to identify the poetic devices. _____ I have a definite appreciation for poetry and feel more confident in my ability to process what I read based on my knowledge of the poetic devices.

40. Thank you Thank you for your participation in this program. Special thanks to the Virginia Department of Education for the released Standards of Learning items that were used as samples for the poetry selections.