Poetic Techniques

The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

Peter Piper picked peppers.

"Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before”

Produces a mental picture or image which shows us the poet’s feelings and thoughts.

"Hope is the thing with feathers – that perches in the soul"

"There were no drums or saxophones, But just the clatter of their bones"

A person, object, image, word or event which conveys a meaning beyond its literal meaning.

"The birds drew shapes in the sky"

The pattern of stressed syllables used to create a beat within a poem is known as

"People love to feel hated"

"As cute as Minnie Mouse"