Download Poetic Devices Practive

Poetic Devices
Practice
Define the
following
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Imagery
Give me an example
• End Rhyme
• Imagery
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Assonance
• Simile
-Why do poets use the above
sound devices?
-Why do poets use figurative
language in their poems?
What Device
• Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
• Hearing the loving wind.
• Bugs buzzin from cousin to cousin
• The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls.
• How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
• He watches from his mountain walls
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
What device?
• Ball goes in
(Thwack) to mitt
And goes out
(thwack) back
To mitt.
• Love is like oxygen; you get
too much, it gets you high;
not enough you’re going to
die.
• I say love, it is a flower, and
you its only seed.
• What a tale of terror now
their turbulency tells!
More
• See how they run – like pigs
from a bun.
• Have you come here to play
Jesus to the lepers in your
head.
• You are the sunshine of my
life.
• Between the lower east side
tenements the sky is a snotty
handkerchief.
• Its been a hard days night
and I've been working like a
dog.
• His skin was as cold as ice.
More
• Unseen, in the background,
Fate was quietly slipping
the lead into the boxing
glove.
• My brain is wider than the
sky
• My heart is like an open
highway.
• The wind stood up and gave
a shout.
• I heard a fly buzz when I
died.
• Rabbits running over roses