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Define and identify poetic devices to review your knowledge! #poetry #poeticdevices
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What is symbolism?
When an object represents an idea, concept, or feeling
When an author references another text
When the poem looks like a picture
When a word sounds like the noise it is describing
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What is hyperbole?
Comparing two things without "like" or "as"
Extreme exaggeration
Having to much sugar
Saying something is the opposite of what it is
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ID devices "Let's go, When evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient on a table"
Metaphor
Personification
Allusion
Simile
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What is alliteration?
Poems with literary devices
Repetition of a word, phrase, concept, or structure
When a letter sound repeats throughout a poem
Being able to read
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Abuelito who throws coins like rain/who is dough and feathers/who is a watch and glass of water
Simile
Symbolism
Metaphor
Repetition
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What is a metaphor?
When two things are compared using "like" or "as'
When a non-human object is given human qualities
When two things are compared without using "like" or "as"
When the word "met" is used four times
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ID device: "One, two! One, two! and through and through/ The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Repetition
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Identify poetic device used: "Hope is the thing with feathers/that perches in the soul"
Imagery
Repetition
Personification
Metaphor
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What are the alliterative sounds? "Some say the world will end in fire,/ Some say in ice"
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Spell a word that means "words that sound like the noise they are describing"
Onomatopoeia
Onamotopoeia
Allusion
Illusion
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What is repetition?
Using descriptions to help the reader imagine the poem
When the poem has two authors
When a letter sound repeats in a poem
When a word, phrase, or structure is repeated in a poem
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What is an allusion?
A magic trick
When an object represents an idea, concept, or feeling
When an author references another text or historical event
When a word sounds like the noise it's describing
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ID devices: "I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow human blood"
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
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What is imagery?
Something that isn't real
Using descriptive words to help the reader imagine the poem
Using color words in a poem
Drawing pictures to go along with poems
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What is rhyme?
When two words mean the same thing
When the last sound in different lines of a poem is the same
When the rhythm of a poem is really smooth
When the same letter sound repeats in a poem
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ID the device: "I was of three minds,/Like a tree/In which there are three blackbirds."
Alliteration
Simile
Allusion
Hyperbole
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What is onomatopoeia?
Another word for sneeze
When a word sounds like the noise it is describing
A poem that's shaped like what it's describing
When the last sound in different lines of poetry is the same
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ID devices: "Here a snail on a wet leaf shivers and dreams of spring"
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
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What is a simile?
A comparison of two things not using "like" or "as"
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
When an object represents an idea, concept, or emotion
When two things are similar
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ID devices: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/Petals on a wet, black, bough"
Metaphor
Symbolism
Simile
Imagery
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What is personification?
When the poem is written by a person
When a non-human object has human qualities
When an object represents an idea, feeling, or concept
When two things are compared using "like" or "as"
