WARM-UP (PLACE YOUR PROJECT ON
YOUR DESK)
1.
Fold the paper I gave you in to fourth, as it is displayed
below.
2.
Copy the titles into the middle of each box.
Last Quarter
Feelings
Hope 4 This
Quarter
Triumphs/
Failures
Strategies 4
Achieving Goals
POETIC DEVICES
The Sounds of Poetry
Source:www.ereadingworksheets.com/fi
gurative.../poetic-devices-lesson.pp
SIMILE
When two items are compared using the words, like or as.
Examples
She runs as fast a as a cheetah.
HYPERBOLE
Using words to exaggerate and overemphasize a point that the
author is trying to make.
Examples
Ms. Pinkney could eat 14,000 Thanksgiving
dinners right now.
ALLITERATION
When the first sounds in words repeat.
Example
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.
Slim-pinioned swallows sweep and pass
METAPHOR
Comparing two object together WITHOUT using like or as.
Example
The feather floated lightly in the air flowing as
bald eagle surviving the Earth.
PERSONIFICATION
Objects possess human features.
Example
The bells sing out, “Yankee Doodle,” on top
of the chapel.
ONOMATOPOEIA
When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound.
Examples
Buzz
Fizz
Hiss
Clink
Beep
Vroom
Woof
Boom
Zip
REPETITION
Repeating a word or words for effect.
Example
When you, my Dear, are
away, away, How wearily
goes the creeping day.
RHYME
When words have the same end sound.
Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines.
Examples
Where
Fair
Air
Bear
Glare
CONNOTATION (FIGURATIVE MEANING)
 Connotations
are the associations people
make with words that go beyond the literal
or dictionary definition. Many words have
connotations that create emotions or
feelings in the reader.
Example:
 And once again, the autumn leaves were
falling.
 This phrase uses ‘autumn’ to signify
something coming to an end.
Source:http://literary-devices.com/content/connotation
DENOTATION (LITERAL MEANING)
 Denotation
refers to the use of the dictionary
definition or literal meaning of a word.
Example:
 “They built a house.”
 In the above sentence, house is meant literally
as in a building where a family lives. If the word
"home" was used instead in the above sentence
in place of "house", the meaning would not be
so literal as there are many emotions associated
with the word "home" beyond simply the
structure where people live (connotation)
Source:http://literary-devices.com/content/connotation
I’ll 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.
PRACTICE QUIZ
Oh! To be a wave
Splintering on the sand,
Drawing back, but leaving
Lingeringly the land.
1
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.
A trumpet-vine covered an arbour
With the red and gold of its blossoms.
Red and gold like the brass notes of Trumpets.
3
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.
4
Upon the enchanted ladder of his rhymes,
Round after round and patiently
The poet ever upward climbs.
5
1.
Rhythm, rhyme, consonance, alliteration.
2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition, rhyme
3.
Alliteration, consonance, repetition
4.
Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration
5.
Repetition, rhyme, light alliteration
ANSWERS