poetic elements
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Poetic Elements
By Jennifer O'Connor
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What are Poetic Devices?
We know that Literary devices are terms used to make writing better. These help the writer tell a story or make a point.
In Poetry, the writer uses some of these devices to express ideas or feelings and create certain effects.
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COMMONLY USED POETIC DEVICES
ALLITERATION/ ASSONANCE/ CONSONANCE
SIMILE // METAPHOR
PERSONIFICATION
ONOMATOPOEIA
REPETITION
RHYME/ RHYME SCHEME
VERSES/ STANZAS
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Multiple Choice
imagery
denotation
onomatopeia
metaphor
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Open Ended
Write down a word that would be considered onomatopoeia.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the poetic element in the following sentence: The sun kissed the horizon goodnight.
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
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Explanation Slide...
The poetic element in the sentence is personification because the sun is given human-like qualities by 'kissing' the horizon.
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Multiple Choice
What is the metaphor in the sentence: Her voice is music to my ears.
Referring to her voice as a delicious meal
Comparing her voice to music
Comparing her voice to a thunderstorm
Describing her voice as a painting
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Explanation Slide...
The metaphor in the sentence is comparing her voice to music, as it implies that her voice is pleasing and enjoyable, just like music.
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Multiple Choice
What is the metaphor in the sentence: The world is a stage.
Comparing the world to a stage
The world is a book
The world is a computer
The world is a playground
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Explanation Slide...
The metaphor in the sentence 'The world is a stage' is comparing the world to a stage. This choice correctly identifies the metaphor by directly stating the comparison.
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Multiple Choice
What do similes and metaphors have in common?
They are examples of form.
They don't have anything in common.
They both use "like" or "as".
They both compare two things.
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Multiple Choice
simile
metaphor
personification
assonance
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Multiple Choice
Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
What type of figurative language is in the red lines?
personification
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
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Repetition
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Multiple Choice
Identify the repetition in the following sentence: The rain fell and fell, washing away all the dirt.
washed and dirt
fell and poured
rained and poured
fell and fell
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Explanation Slide...
The repetition in the sentence is 'fell and fell', which emphasizes the continuous action of rain falling.
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Same letter or SOUND
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Multiple Choice
If I want to include alliteration in the following sentence, which word should I choose?
" The sparkling river ______ over the mountain.
Roared
Swept
trickled
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Multiple Choice
True or False
Stanzas in a poem are made up by lines.
true
false
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Multiple Choice
Hyperboles are phrases that
compare two unlike things
exaggerate
give person-like qualities to animals and things
have a different meaning than the words.
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Multiple Choice
I was so hungry I could eat a horse.
hyperbole
not hyperbole
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Personification is attributing human traits or actions to non-human things
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Multiple Choice
The same beginning sound repeated
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
A word that is a sound
An exaggeration
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How Poems are Structured
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Multiple Choice
Stanzas are made up of _____________.
lines
other stanzas
figurative language
rhymes
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Multiple Choice
What are the "paragraphs" of poems?
sections
stanzas
paragraphs
forms
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Multiple Choice
Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
To the swinging and the ringing
of the bells, bells, bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells, bells, bells-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
couplet
rhyme scheme
simile
repetition
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