Poetic Devices 1 Poetic Devices General Knowledge Poetic Devices 2 Types of poems
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Simile
She was as happy as a clam!
100
alliteration
The cat curled carefully on the carpet
100
The choice of words in writing.
Explain what "diction" is.
100
Simile
Her eyes were like the sun
100
Haiku
An old silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond—

Splash! Silence again.
200
assonance
Go slow over the road
200
Onomatopoeia
BANG!
200
Ellipses
The three dots at the end of a sentence (...) are known as?
200
Personification
The trees waved in the wind.
200
Limerick
A wonderful bird is the pelican,

His bill holds more than his belican.

He can take in his beak,

Enough food for a week,

But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
300
Personification
The flowers begged for water.
300
Refrain/Chorus
The repeating of a sentence/stanza a few times throughout a poem
300
Sarah asked whether any of them were going to the party the following day.
Change this correctly to indirect speech:

Sarah asked, "Are any of you going to the party tomorrow?"
300
Metaphor
His eyes were ice as they stared at his enemy.
300
Sonnet
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
400
Pun
A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.
400
Malapropism
"Dad says the monster is just a pigment of my imagination"
400
Orson Scott Card
The Author of Ender's Game
400
Irony
"Yesterday the fire station burned down."
400
Cinquain
"Watermelon
Juicy, sweet
Dripping, slurping, smacking
So messy to eat
Yummy"
500
Hyperbole
"This bag weighs a ton!"
500
Iambic Pentameter
Shakespeare wrote all of his plays and sonnets with this syllable and line rhythm structure.
500
Noun: Fright
Adjective: frightful
Adverb: frightfully
Frighten (verb): change to a noun, adverb and adjective.
500
Oxymoron
"Deafening Silence"
500
Acrostic
Sunny days

Plants awakening

Raindrops on the roof

Interesting clouds

New flowers

Gray skies






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