Poetic Devices

​Poetic Devices are: tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling ​

They create a powerful and memorable poem ​

Poetic devices can be used to engage the reader by making the writing more interesting, therefore hooking the reader in to read more. 

Alliteration: ​Alliteration happens when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence. (Usually a consonant) ​

Metaphor: a comparison between two things without using "like" or "as" ​

Rhyme: close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of writing ​

Personification: giving human traits to something that is not a human

Onomatopoeia: when a word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to when it is spoken Simile​: a comparison between two things using "like" or "as

Alliteration: ​Shut the shutters before the banging sound makes you shudder.

​Metaphor: He is a shining star.

​Rhyme: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. 

​Personification: Lightning danced across the sky.

Onomatopoeia: RINGGG! My alarm blasted across the room, and I jolted up. 

Simile​: He was as brave as a lion.