Poetic Devices

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Poetic Devices
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Alliteration

• The repetition of initial consonant sounds
• So the first consonant repeats in each line
• i.e. terrible truths and little leprechauns like
  long limousines

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Metaphor

• A comparison between two objects giving meaning
  to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb
  are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the
  comparison.
• Example
• The boy was a helpless bird waiting for its
  mother.

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Simile

• A comparison between two objects using a specific
  word or comparison such as 'like', 'as', or
  'than'.
• We watched the ghostly dancers spin To sound of
  horn and violin, Like black leaves wheeling in
  the wind.
• Like wire-pulled automatons, Slim silhouetted
  skeletons Went sidling through the slow
  quadrille.
• (by Oscar Wilde)

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Simile cont .

• Beezo shot the basketball like a wounded duck.

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Assonance

• The repetition of vowel sounds.
• Resemblance or similarity in sound between vowels
  followed by different consonants in two or more
  stressed syllables. Assonance differs from RHYME
  in that RHYME is a similarity of vowel and
  consonant. "Lake" and "fake" demonstrate RHYME
  "lake" and "fate" assonance
• Example
• Elaine waited in plain train

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Onomatopoeia

• The use of words which imitate sound.
• Example
• He crashed into the car as he heard the screech
  of the wheels
• The gun boomed as the shots were fired. The
  bullets whizzed past the bystanders.

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Imagery

• Words or phrases that use the senses or a
  combination of senses.
• i.e. He could almost taste his fear as he smelt
  the fright of the bolting horse.

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PERSONIFICATION

• Personification is giving human qualities to
  animals or objects.
• Examplea smiling moon, a jovial sun,
• The old wooden floor groaned with displeasure as
  we walked across it

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Hyperbole

• Hyperbole is exaggeration or overstatement
• I was so hungry I could eat a horse.
• He was as big as a house.

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Rhythm

• In poetry, rhythm, broadly speaking, is a
  recognizable pulse, or "recurrence," which gives
  a distinct beat to a line and also gives it a
  shape.
• One, two,Buckle my shoe.Three, four,Shut the
  door

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