Poetic Devices

Special Poetry Techniques

 Figures of Speech

Poets use the following techniques

to create word pictures in
their poems
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•Simile
-makes comparison
•The snowplow
reared up like a
using the words stallion.
“like” or “as”.
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•Metaphor
-compares two different
things without using a •Peace is a sunrise.
word of comparison,
such as “like” or “as”.
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•Personification •The leaves
-describes something gossiped among
non-human as if it
themselves.
had human qualities.
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•Hyperbole
-is an exaggerated •His were so dirty
statement. Sometimes the shandsoap ran
hyperbole is meant to and hid. .
be funny.
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Poets use the following techniques
to make their poems
pleasant sounding.
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•Alliteration •The sun slowly
-is the repetition of reaches the highest
consonant sounds at point in its bright,
the beginning of words. blue home.
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•Assonance
-is the repetition of
•My stepmom
shouted loud as a
vowel sounds in train.
words.
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•Consonance
-is the repetition of
consonant sounds
•Call me Jack, the
anywhere in words, not
wacky one.
just at the beginning.
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•End Rhyme The music’s
-is the use of rhyming pumpin’
words at the end of two I start jumpin’
or more lines of poetry. - Maya Liparini
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•Internal Rhyme
-is the use of rhyming Hang tight, then
words within the line make a right.
of poetry.
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•Onomatopoeia Swish those skirts,
-is the use of words snap those fingers –
that sound very much
like the noise they Go ahead, but watch
name. the night go poof.
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•Repetition We feared nothing,
-is the technique of
because we had
repeating a word or
phrase for rhythm or nothing to fear.
emphasis. - Shannon Winston-Dolan
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•Rhythm Whose woods these
are I think I know.
-is the way a poem
His house is in the
flows from one village though.
idea to the next. - Robert Frost