Poetic Devices

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Poetic Devices

• The Sounds of Poetry

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Onomatopoeia

• When a words pronunciation imitates its sound.
• Examples
• Buzz Fizz Woof
• Hiss Clink Boom
• Beep Vroom Zip

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Repetition

• Repeating a word or words for effect.
• Example
• When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily
  goes the creeping day.

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Rhythm

• When words are arranged in such a way that they
  make a pattern or beat.
• Example
• There once was a girl from Chicago
• Who dyed her hair pink in the bathtub
• I own a solace shut within my heart,
• A garden full of many a quaint delight
• Hint hum the words instead of saying them.

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Rhyme

• When words have the same end sound.
• Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of
  lines.
• Examples
• Where
• Fair
• Air
• Bear
• Glare

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Alliteration

• When the first sounds in words repeat.
• Example
• Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.
• Slim-pinioned swallows sweep and pass

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Consonance

• When consonants repeat in the middle or end of
  words.
• Creates a near rhyme sound
• Examples
• Fixed in onyx A pillar of valor
• The calm lamb Fish in a mesh net

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Practice Quiz

• Ill put some lines of poetry on the board.
• Write down which techniques are used
• Alliteration, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and
  onomatopoeia.
• Some poems use more than one technique.

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• Oh! To be a wave
• Splintering on the sand,
• Drawing back, but leaving
• Lingeringly the land.

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2

• Drip--hiss--drip--hiss fall the raindrops
• on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
• and smokes the ceiling beams.
• Drip--hiss--the rain never stops.

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3

• A trumpet-vine covered an arbourWith the red
  and gold of its blossoms.Red and gold like the
  brass notes of Trumpets.

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• I passed through the gates of the city, The
  streets were strange and still,Through the doors
  of the open churches The organs were moaning
  shrill.

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• Upon the enchanted ladder of his rhymes,Round
  after round and patientlyThe poet ever upward
  climbs.

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Answers

• 1. Rhythm, rhyme, consonance, alliteration.
• 2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition, rhyme
• Alliteration, consonance, repetition
• Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration
• Repetition, rhyme, light alliteration