Transcript Poetic Devices

Welcome to
Poetic Devices
Learn literary
elements frequently
used in poetry
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Program Objectives
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Instructions
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Figurative Language Devices
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Sound Devices
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Imagery
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Practice
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Assessment
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Discussion Board
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Metaphor, Simile, Personification
Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance,
Onomatopoeia,
Program Objectives
• The users will develop their comprehension of the poetic devices by
identifying examples of the devices in practice exercises.
• The users will demonstrate their comprehension of the poetic devices by
successfully identifying the device in sample poems with at least seventy
percent efficiency.
• The users will evaluate their attitude towards poetry, based on success
with manipulation of the poetic devices.
Directions for Tutorial:
• Read the definitions and examples
presented for each poetic device.
• Practice identifying the definitions of
the poetic device by matching the
device with the correct definition
• Assess your comprehension of the
poetic devices with test where you
select the correct device based on
the sample line of poetry that is
presented.
Figurative Language
• Figurative Language is a word or
phrase that describes one thing in
terms of another and is not meant
to be taken literally
• Figurative Language consists of poetic
devices such as metaphor, simile,
personification, and hyperbole
Metaphor
Figurative language that makes a
comparison between two
unlike things, in which one
thing becomes another thing
without the use of the words
like, as, than, or resembles
Metaphor
All the world is a stage
-William Shakespeare
Hope is the thing with feathers.
-Emily Dickinson
Life is a broken winged bird that
cannot fly
-Langston Hughes
Simile
Figurative language that makes
a comparison between two
unlike things, using an explicit
word such as like, as,
resembles, or than.
Simile
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
-Langston Hughes
Life is like a box of chocolates.
-Forrest Gump
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Personification
A special kind of metaphor in
which a nonhuman thing
or quality is talked about
as if it were human
Personification
This poetry gets bored of being alone…
- Hugo Margenat
Time, you old gypsy man,
Will you not stay?
-Ralph Hodgson
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
- Robert Frost
Hyperbole
Exaggeration to
express strong
emotion or for
comic effect.
Also called
overstatement
Hyperbole
This limousine is as long as an ocean liner.
Sound Devices
Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Repetition of the beginning
consonant sounds in words
that are close together in a
poem.
Alliteration
Success and emotional symmetry
are simply hard to sustain.
-John Tolliver
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
-Anonymous
Doing her woman’s work was a hard art
to practice when the summer sun would bar
the floor I swept till she was satisfied.
-Julia Alvarez
Assonance
Repetition of the
vowel sound followed
by different consonants
in two or more stressed
syllables
Assonance
Thou foster child of silence and slow time
-John Keats
Consonance
Repetition of the ending consonant
sound, especially in words that
are close together in a poem.
Consonance
A think tank is the sound of wind, rushing and wishing.
- John Tolliver
Onomatopoeia
The use of a word whose sound
imitates or suggests its meaning.
Onomatopoeia
Tick, tock, tick, tock the clock continues…
Boom! Cataclysmic explosion.
Chirp, chirp. Chirp, chirp. Happy birds on a summer’s day.
Imagery
Is defined as language that creates a
mental image by appealing to the five
senses:
Sight
Sound
Smell
Touch
Taste
Imagery
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match…
- Robert Browning
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor’s breast
And the harbor’s eyes.
-Carl Sandburg
Practice
Directions: Type the letter of the correct definition beside the poetic device.
practice
1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Onomatopoeia
A.
B.
C.
4. Imagery
D.
E.
5. Personification
F.
6. Alliteration
G.
7. Assonance
H.
I.
8. Consonance
9. Figurative Language
Repetition of the beginning
consonant sound
Comparison of two unlike things
Words that appeal to the five
senses
Words that represent sounds
Words or phrases not to be
taken literally
Repetition of the ending
consonant sound
Giving animals or objects
human characteristics
Repetition of vowel sounds
Comparison of two unlike things
using like, as, or resembles.
Assessment
Armed with your knowledge of the poetic devices, you are now ready to
analyze sample lines of poetry and determine which device they represent.
Question 1
Which poetic device is the line of poetry which reads, “princes and paupers are
people a word apart” an example of?
• A) personification
• B) alliteration
• C) metaphor
• D) simile
Question 2
What poetic device is the line “the hands of time molded my distaste” an
example of?
• A) personification
• B) alliteration
• C) metaphor
• D) simile
Question 3
What poetic device is the line “her smile is like the noon day sun” an example
of?
• A) personification
• B) alliteration
• C) metaphor
• D) simile
Question 4
The line from Psalm 22 that reads “I am poured out like water…my
heart is like wax” is an example of:
• A) Alliteration
• B) Simile
• C) Metaphor
• D) Personification
Question 5
In “Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the line which reads “It is not
enough that yearly, down this hill, April comes like an idiot,
babbling and strewing flowers” is an example of
• A) Assonance
• B) Alliteration
• C) Personification
• D) Onomatopoeia
Question 6
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” contains a line that
reads “O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn’s being.” This is
an example of:
• A) Alliteration
• B) Assonance
• C) Consonance
• D) Onomatopoeia
Question 7
In “Summer Remembered” by Isabella Gardner the line which reads
“The pizzicato plinkle of ice in an auburn uncle’s amber glass” is
an example of:
• A) Assonance
• B) Consonance
• C) Onomatopoeia
• D) simile
Question 8
Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” contains a line which
reads “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.” This is
an example of:
• A) Assonance
• B) Consonance
• C) Onomatopoeia
• D) Alliteration
Question 9
The line which reads “I was a lonely cloud” is an example of:
• A) Simile
• B) Metaphor
• C) Alliteration
• D) Assonance
Question 10
Emily Dickinson’s lines of poetry which read “The Mountain sat upon
the Plain/ In his tremendous Chair--/ His observation omnifold,/
His inquest, everywhere—” This is an example of:
• A) Personification
• B) Metaphor
• C) Simile
• D) Alliteration
Congratulations
You have successfully completed the assessment page.
You answered the assessment questions with ___
% accuracy.
Evaluation
Check the response that pertains to you:
_____ I feel more confident in my ability to identify the poetic devices.
_____ I have a definite appreciation for poetry and feel more confident in
my ability to process what I read based on my knowledge of the
poetic devices.
Thank you
Thank you for your participation in this program. Special thanks to the
Virginia Department of Education for the released Standards of Learning
items that were used as samples for the poetry selections.