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Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices. Take NOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Hyperbole. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally Hyperbole is used for emphasis or humorous effect. “to wait an eternity .”

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Poetic Devices

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  1. Poetic Devices Take NOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Hyperbole • an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally • Hyperbole is used for emphasis or humorous effect. • “to wait an eternity.” • “The skin on her face was as thin and drawn as tight as the skin of onion and her eyes were gray and sharp like the points of two picks” —Flannery O’Connor • “People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.”—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  3. Metaphor • an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common • Love is a battlefield. • Life is a rollercoaster • Life is a highway

  4. Simile • two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as • "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.“ (Carl Sandburg) • A Red, Red RosebyRobert Burns “O my Love's like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;O my Love's like the melodyThat's sweetly played in tune.”

  5. Idiom • an expression or word that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning • To get out of hand • To bang your head against a brick wall

  6. Alliteration • the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a phrase or line • Blonde Bombshell • "She sells seashells by the seashore,“ • Tongue Twisters

  7. Assonance • The repetition of identical or similar VOWEL sounds in neighboring words. • make the grade • Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far.

  8. Internal Rhyme • Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse

  9. Slant Rhyme • known also as half-rhyme or imperfect rhyme, refers to words that almost rhyme (farm, yard) or appear to the eye to do so (said, paid). Many poets use slant rhyme to introduce an element of the unexpected and prompt their readers to pay closer attention to words themselves rather than the sounds of the words.

  10. Couplet • verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought.

  11. Onomatopoeia • use of words (such as hiss or murmur) that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to

  12. Personification • When an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. • The chair walked across the floor

  13. Pun • the humorous use of a word, or of words which are formed or sounded alike but have different meanings, in such a way as to play on two or more of the possible applications; a play on words.

  14. Rhyme Scheme • is a regular pattern of rhyme, one that is consistent throughout the extent of the poem. 

  15. Iambic Pentameter • Watch the video!!

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