Poetic+Devices+with+Examples


 * Completed Poetic Devices with Examples: **


 * **alliteration ** || repetition of the initial consonant sounds || **terrible truths and lullaby lies ** ||
 * **assonance ** || repetition of vowel sound || mystery disguised within ||
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 * **consonance ** || repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowel sounds || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">gloomy woman ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">imagery **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">language that evokes sensory images

|| **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">drip of ruby teardrops (aural/sound) **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> to wake up where the **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">green grass grows ****<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> (visual/sight) **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> lips like cool sweet tea(oral/taste)

streaming through a velvet sky(tactile/touch)

the stench of the underworld (olfactory/smell) || (rather than at the end) || **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">piece of me emerges **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || (made without using like or as) || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I am the "Lone Star" || to animals or objects || **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">tears of amber fall from my soul **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || at the end of the line || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">life for me is wild and free || at the end of the line || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">lusty eyes (A)passionate cries (A)rich blood, (B) bitter sweat (C) she/he loves (D) and dies (A) || <span style="text-align: left; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> and moon like day and gloomy night like pure earth and gentle clouds transformation - life and death **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || than its literal meaning || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">always open like a rosebud about to bloom (a young girl) || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||
 * ====**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">internal rhyme **==== || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">rhyming that occurs within the line
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">metaphor **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">comparison of unlike things
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">onomatopoeia **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">a word that imitates the sound it represents || **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Boo! Who? **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">personification **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">giving human qualities or characteristics
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">rhyme **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">a pattern of words that contains similar sounds
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">rhyme scheme **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">a repeated pattern of rhymed words
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">simile **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">a comparison using like or as || **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">notes dance across the page like stars twinkle ****<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">like stars twinkle **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> in the night sky ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">stanza **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">a group of poetic lines (also called a verse) || **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Like glistening sun
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">symbol **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">an object or action that means more
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Also, during the course of this poetry unit you will be adding more words to your word wall, so please leave room in your notebook to do so. **