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Poetic Devices, Study notes of Poetry

Cavite State University (CSU)Poetry

4. alliteration. 5. assonance ... rhyme. 8. rhyme: internal rhyme. 9. rhyme: near/half/ impure rhyme ... Practicing Poetic Devices - Terms & Definitions.

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Poetic Devices - Terms & Definitions
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Term/Device Definition Example of How it is Used in Poetry
1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification
4. alliteration
5. assonance
6. onomatopoeia
7. rhyme: true/pure
rhyme
8. rhyme: internal rhyme
9. rhyme: near/half/
impure rhyme
10. rhyme: eye rhyme
11. hyperbole
12. irony/paradox Irony: Paradox:
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Poetic Devices - Terms & Definitions

Term/Device Definition Example of How it is Used in Poetry

  1. simile
  2. metaphor
  3. personification
  4. alliteration
  5. assonance
  6. onomatopoeia
  7. rhyme: true/pure rhyme
  8. rhyme: internal rhyme
  9. rhyme: near/half/ impure rhyme
  10. rhyme: eye rhyme
  11. hyperbole
  12. irony/paradox (^) Irony: Paradox:

Practicing Poetic Devices - Terms & Definitions

Term/Device Definition Example of How it is Used in Poetry

  1. simile (^) A comparison of two things (that may or not be alike) using the words like or as.

Lisa looks like a total fox today. Bob is hungry as a wolf.

  1. metaphor (^) A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. (Things = person, place, thing, or thought)

Bob is a hungry wolf. Lisa is a fox. This class is my ticket out of EHS.

  1. personification (^) A type of metaphor in which non-human things or ideas possess human qualities or actions.

The wind whispered her name. Love is blind.

  1. alliteration (^) The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of neighboring words. (Consonants are all the letters except a, e, i, o, u, and y.)

The dark dance of death whisked her away. Like a lucky charm, he looks on. Summer is the sweaty circus scents.

  1. assonance (^) The repetition of vowel sounds (within stressed syllables) of neighboring words. (Vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.)

Talking and walking, hours on end. A turtle in the fertile soil.

  1. onomatopoeia (^) Words which imitate the sound they refer to. The eagle whizzed past the buzzing bees. Rip-roar fire, the gun stutters on. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh! What a relief it is. (from an Alka-Seltzer ad)
  2. rhyme: true/pure rhyme

Words which end with the same sounds, usually at the end of lines. So go ahead and preach, ʻcause Iʼm the one you teach.

  1. rhyme: internal rhyme (^) Rhyme within a line. Bright night, a full moon above.

We will stay today and then we must go. Itʼs a play day and weʼre feeling good.

  1. rhyme: near/half/ impure rhyme

Slight or inaccurate repetition of sounds (also called impure rhyme). Hint: The vowel sounds in the words do not quite rhyme.

On top of the hill, the moon is full.

  1. rhyme: eye rhyme (^) Words that look like they rhyme (similar spelling), but do NOT rhyme (also called sight rhyme).

Listen to the water flow, from top I donʼt see how. (Other examples of eye/sight rhymes: prove/love, over/discover, height/weight, tomb/comb, sew/dew, plow/crow, do/so, though/rough, daughter/laughter, tone/gone, roll/doll, good/mood)

  1. hyperbole (^) An obvious and deliberate exaggeration (to emphasize something or for humorous purposes).

He could eat a horse. She cried for days. Running faster than the speed of light. I had a ton of homework.

  1. irony/paradox (^) Irony: Saying the opposite of what you actually mean.

Paradox: A statement that seems to contradict or oppose itself, yet actually reveals some truth.

Irony ex.: The directions were as clear as mud. Paradox ex.: Youth is wasted on the young. The less you have, the more you are free. Her silence was deafening.