Poetic Devices
“The newspapers on the table fluttered,
and stray pages whisked over the floor.
Pitilessly, Gregor’s father drove him back,
hissing and crying “Shoo!” like a savage.
- Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
Poetic Devices
“The newspapers on the table fluttered,
and stray pages whisked over the floor.
Pitilessly, Gregor’s father drove him back,
hissing and crying “Shoo!” like a savage.
- Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
Onomatopoeia
Poetic Devices
“The wind stood up and gave a shout.
He whistled on his fingers and,
Kicked the withered leaves about.”
James Stephens
Poetic Devices
“The wind stood up and gave a shout.
He whistled on his fingers and,
Kicked the withered leaves about.”
James Stephens
Personification
Poetic Devices
“The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;”
Charlotte Bronte – “Evening Solace”
Poetic Devices
“The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;”
Charlotte Bronte – “Evening Solace”
Alliteration
Poetic Devices
“Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund
day / Stands tiptoe on the misty
mountaintops.”
Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
Poetic Devices
“Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund
day / Stands tiptoe on the misty
mountaintops.”
Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
Personification
Poetic Devices
“Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.”
Poetic Devices
“Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.”
Simile
Poetic Devices
“Oh, my love is a red, red rose.”
Poetic Devices
“Oh, my love is a red, red rose.”
Metaphor
Poetic Devices
“Sweet childish days, that were as long /
As twenty days are now.”
- William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”
Poetic Devices
“Sweet childish days, that were as long /
As twenty days are now.”
-William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”
- Hyperbole
Poetic Devices
“Time as he grows old teaches many
lessons.”
- Aeschylus, Prometheus
Poetic Devices
“Time as he grows old teaches many
lessons.”
-Aeschylus, Prometheus
-Personification
Poetic Devices
“That time of year thou mayest in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang.”
- Shakespeare
Poetic Devices
“That time of year thou mayest in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang.”
-Shakespeare
-Metaphor
Poetic Devices
“Hope like the gleaming taper’s light,
Adorns and cheers our way.”
-Oliver Goldsmith, “The Captivity”
Poetic Devices
“Hope like the gleaming taper’s light,
Adorns and cheers our way.”
-Oliver Goldsmith, “The Captivity”
-Simile