poetic devices
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Poetic Devices
The Sounds of Poetry
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• Please begin working on your Bell Ringer complete Monday-Wednesday!
• Today we will be working in groups on Poetic Devices and completing a lesson Read Theory!
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Onomatopoeia
When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound.
Examples
Buzz Fizz Woof
Hiss Clink Boom
Beep Vroom Zip
Repetition
Repeating a word or words for effect.
Example
When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day.
Rhythm
When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat.
Example
There once was a girl from Chicago
Who dyed her hair pink in the bathtub
I own a solace shut within my heart,
A garden full of many a quaint delight
Hint: hum the words instead of saying them.
Rhyme
When words have the same end sound.
Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines.
Examples
Where
Fair
Air
Bear
Glare
Alliteration
When the first sounds in words repeat.
Example
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.
Slim-pinioned swallows sweep and pass
Consonance
When consonants repeat in the middle or end of words.
Creates a near rhyme sound
Examples
Fixed in onyx A pillar of valor
The calm lamb Fish in a mesh net
Practice Quiz
I’ll put some lines of poetry on the screen.
Write down which techniques are used:
Alliteration, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and onomatopoeia.
Some poems use more than one technique.
1
Oh! To be a wave
Splintering on the sand,
Drawing back, but leaving
Lingeringly the land.
2
Drip--hiss--drip--hiss– fall the raindrops
on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams.
Drip--hiss--the rain never stops.
3
A trumpet-vine covered an arbourWith the red and gold of its blossoms.Red and gold like the brass notes of Trumpets.
4
I passed through the gates of the city,The streets were strange and still,
Through the doors of the open churchesThe organs were moaning shrill.
5
Upon the enchanted ladder of his rhymes,Round after round and patientlyThe poet ever upward climbs.
Answers
1. Rhythm, rhyme, consonance, alliteration.
2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition, rhyme
3. Alliteration, consonance, repetition
4. Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration
5. Repetition, rhyme, light alliteration