Poetic Devices Practice
Define the following Metaphor Simile Personification Alliteration Imagery
Give me an example End Rhyme Alliteration Onomatopoeia Assonance -Why do poets use the above sound devices? Imagery Personification Metaphor Simile -Why do poets use figurative language in their poems?
What Device Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hearing the loving wind. Bugs buzzin from cousin to cousin The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls. How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, He watches from his mountain walls And like a thunderbolt he falls.
What device? Ball goes in (Thwack) to mitt And goes out (thwack) back Love is like oxygen; you get too much, it gets you high; not enough you’re going to die. I say love, it is a flower, and you its only seed. What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells!
More See how they run – like pigs from a bun. Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head. You are the sunshine of my life. Between the lower east side tenements the sky is a snotty handkerchief. Its been a hard days night and I've been working like a dog. His skin was as cold as ice.
More Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing glove. My heart is like an open highway. I heard a fly buzz when I died. My brain is wider than the sky Rabbits running over roses The wind stood up and gave a shout.