Name_____________________________ Date_________ Pd



Name_____________________________ Date_________ Pd. _____

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|Alliteration: the repetition of ________________ sounds at the |Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. |

|beginning of words. | |

| |This Is Just To Say –William Carlos Williams |

|Free verse poetry: | |

|-Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern. |I have eaten |

|-It relies on the natural rhythms of speech. |the plums |

|-Free-verse poetry invents and follows its own forms, patterns, and |that were in |

|rules. |the icebox |

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| |and which |

| |you were probably |

| |saving |

| |for breakfast |

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| |Forgive me |

| |they were delicious |

| |so sweet |

| |and so cold |

| |I nearly died laughing. |

|Hyperbole: an expression of _________________. |I’ve told you a million times… |

| |Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round |

| |the world. (Emerson) |

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|Imagery: words or phrases that appeal to any of the five |drip of ruby teardrops (sound) |

|________________. |to wake up where the green grass grows (sight) |

| |lips like cool sweet tea (taste) |

| |streaming through a velvet sky (touch) |

| |the stench of the underworld (smell) |

|Literal Language: Language that is true to fact. It uses words in |My dog is a carnivore (an animal that eats meat). |

|accordance with their ___________ (literal) meanings. | |

|Figurative Language: Language that makes _________________ between |In the kitchen, when I cook, my dog is a tap dancer. |

|unrelated things and ideas, in order to show something (usually deeper| |

|meaning or a different way of looking at something) about a subject. | |

|Metaphor: a figure of speech that _____________ two _________ things |Her hair is silk. |

|directly, ___________ the use of like or as. |"My love is a red, red rose," |

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|Onomatopoeia: words that ___________ sounds. |Boom. Gurgle. Plink. Buzz. Crack. |

| |The sky shrieked and sobbed |

|Personification: Giving ____________ qualities to nonhuman things for | |

|a desired purpose or meaning | |

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|Rhyme scheme: the _______________ in which the rhyme occurs. The first|Piping down the valleys wild, (A) |

|end sound is represented as the letter “a,” the second is “b,” etc. |Piping songs of pleasant glee, (B) |

| |On a cloud I saw a child, (A) |

| |And he laughing said to me: (B) |

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|Simile: a figure of speech that _____________ two unlike things, using|His feet were as big as boats. |

|the words _________ or ____. | |

| |Life fades like a passing shadow. |

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| |The sky is black as ink. |

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|Stanza: Formal _____________ of lines in a poem. | |

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|Symbolism: using an object to _____________ an idea. A symbol means |Lions often symbolize royalty, while doves often symbolize peace. |

|what it is and also something more. | |

Find or create your own examples of the poetic devices below…

|Poetic Device/Figurative Language |Examples |

|Alliteration | |

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|Hyperbole | |

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|Imagery | |

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|Metaphor | |

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|Onomatopoeia | |

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|Personification | |

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|Simile | |

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|Symbolism | |

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