1. POETIC DEVICES

3. POETIC DEVICE (ADD TO YOUR TERMS) Poetic device= a technique that helps add to the poet’s expression. They are often NOT literal.

4. PERSONIFICATION (ADD TO YOUR TERMS) When someone describes an object, animal, etc. and describes it doing something human. Ex: The alarm clock glared at me. The wind crept after me.

6. SIMILE A comparison of one thing to another thing, using like, as, or than Ex: He was as swift as a fox He was brave, like a lion

8. METAPHOR Saying something is something else America is a melting pot The classroom is a zoo What do these mean?

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10. ALLITERATION The repetition of similar sounds in words next to each other Ex: Peter Piper picked a pair of pickled peppers. The breeze sweetly sang as the sun sunk over the horizon

11. DREAMS BY LANGSTON HUGHES (WHAT 2 POETIC DEVICES ARE HERE?) Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

12. NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leafs a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

13. ON YOUR POSTER The definition At least two pictures representing the poetic device At least three examples.