1. Poetic Devices
“The newspapers on the table fluttered, and stray pages whisked over the floor. Pitilessly, Gregor’s father drove him back, hissing and crying “Shoo!” like a savage.
- Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”

2. Poetic Devices
“The newspapers on the table fluttered, and stray pages whisked over the floor. Pitilessly, Gregor’s father drove him back, hissing and crying “Shoo!” like a savage.
- Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
Onomatopoeia

3. Poetic Devices “The wind stood up and gave a shout.
He whistled on his fingers and,
Kicked the withered leaves about.”
James Stephens

4. Poetic Devices “The wind stood up and gave a shout.
He whistled on his fingers and,
Kicked the withered leaves about.”
James Stephens
Personification

5. Poetic Devices “The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;”
Charlotte Bronte – “Evening Solace”

6. Poetic Devices “The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;”
Charlotte Bronte – “Evening Solace”
Alliteration

7. Poetic Devices
“Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops.”
Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet

8. Poetic Devices
“Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops.”
Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
Personification

9. “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.”
Poetic Devices
“Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.”

10. “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.” Simile
Poetic Devices
“Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.”
Simile

11. “Oh, my love is a red, red rose.”
Poetic Devices
“Oh, my love is a red, red rose.”

12. “Oh, my love is a red, red rose.” Metaphor
Poetic Devices
“Oh, my love is a red, red rose.”
Metaphor

13. Poetic Devices “Sweet childish days, that were as long /
As twenty days are now.”
- William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”

14. Poetic Devices “Sweet childish days, that were as long /
As twenty days are now.”
William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”
Hyperbole

15. “Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.” - Aeschylus, Prometheus
Poetic Devices
“Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.”
- Aeschylus, Prometheus

16. Poetic Devices “Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.”
Aeschylus, Prometheus
Personification

17. Poetic Devices - Shakespeare
“That time of year thou mayest in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang.”
- Shakespeare

18. Poetic Devices Shakespeare Metaphor
“That time of year thou mayest in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang.”
Shakespeare
Metaphor

19. Poetic Devices “Hope like the gleaming taper’s light,
Adorns and cheers our way.”
Oliver Goldsmith, “The Captivity”

20. Poetic Devices “Hope like the gleaming taper’s light,
Adorns and cheers our way.”
Oliver Goldsmith, “The Captivity”
Simile