1. Welcome to Poetic Devices
Learn literary elements frequently used in poetry
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2. Menu Program Objectives Instructions Figurative Language Devices
Metaphor, Simile, Personification
Sound Devices
Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia,
Imagery
Practice
Assessment
Discussion Board
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Each bulleted item Hyperlinks to the section for the poetic device, program objectives, instructions, practice and assessment.

3. Program Objectives
The users will develop their comprehension of the poetic devices by identifying examples of the devices in practice exercises.
The users will demonstrate their comprehension of the poetic devices by successfully identifying the device in sample poems with at least seventy percent efficiency.
The users will evaluate their attitude towards poetry, based on success with manipulation of the poetic devices.
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Student reads the objectives of the program.
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4. Directions for Tutorial:
Read the definitions and examples presented for each poetic device.
Practice identifying the definitions of the poetic device by matching the device with the correct definition
Assess your comprehension of the poetic devices with test where you select the correct device based on the sample line of poetry that is presented.
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Text: Verdana, 16 pts.
Student reads the directions for the tutorial.
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Student will read the directions and proceed with the tutorial by selecting the forward key.

5. Figurative Language
Figurative Language is a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be taken literally
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Student reads the definitions.
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Figurative Language consists of poetic
devices such as metaphor, simile,
personification, and hyperbole

6. Metaphor
Figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles

7. Metaphor All the world is a stage -William Shakespeare
Hope is the thing with feathers.
-Emily Dickinson
Life is a broken winged bird that
cannot fly
-Langston Hughes
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Text: Verdana, 16 pts.
Student reads the definitions.
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8. Simile
Figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using an explicit word such as like, as, resembles, or than.
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Student reads the definition.
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9. Simile What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
-Langston Hughes
Life is like a box of chocolates.
-Forrest Gump
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Text: Verdana, 16 pts.
Student reads the examples.
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And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

10. Personification
A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
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Student reads the definition.
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11. Personification This poetry gets bored of being alone… - Hugo Margenat
Time, you old gypsy man,
Will you not stay?
-Ralph Hodgson
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
- Robert Frost
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Student reads the examples.
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12. Hyperbole
Exaggeration to express strong emotion or for comic effect. Also called overstatement

13. Hyperbole
This limousine is as long as an ocean liner.

14. Sound Devices Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia
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Student reads the definitions.
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15. Alliteration
Repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem.
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Student reads the definition.
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16. Alliteration Success and emotional symmetry
are simply hard to sustain.
-John Tolliver
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
-Anonymous
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Student reads the examples.
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Doing her woman’s work was a hard art
to practice when the summer sun would bar
the floor I swept till she was satisfied.
-Julia Alvarez

17. Assonance Repetition of the vowel sound followed
by different consonants
in two or more stressed
syllables
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Student reads the definition.
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18. Assonance Thou foster child of silence and slow time -John Keats
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Student reads the example.
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19. Consonance
Repetition of the ending consonant sound, especially in words that are close together in a poem.
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Student reads the definition.
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20. Consonance A think tank is the sound of wind, rushing and wishing.
- John Tolliver
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Student reads the example.
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21. Onomatopoeia The use of a word whose sound
imitates or suggests its meaning.
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Text font: Verdana, 16 pts.
Student enters definition. Then clicks on the icon of Professor Max for the literary definition. Graphic hyperlinks to textbox with literary definition.
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22. Onomatopoeia Tick, tock, tick, tock the clock continues…
Boom! Cataclysmic explosion.
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Student reads the examples.
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Chirp, chirp. Chirp, chirp. Happy birds on a summer’s day.

23. Imagery
Is defined as language that creates a mental image by appealing to the five senses:
Sight
Sound
Smell
Touch
Taste
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Student reads the definition.
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24. Imagery Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match…
- Robert Browning
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor’s breast
And the harbor’s eyes.
-Carl Sandburg
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Student reads the examples.
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25. Practice
Directions: Type the letter of the correct definition beside the poetic device.
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Student reads the instructions.
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26. practice 1. Simile Repetition of the beginning consonant sound
2. Metaphor
3. Onomatopoeia
4. Imagery
5. Personification
6. Alliteration
7. Assonance
8. Consonance
9. Figurative Language
Repetition of the beginning consonant sound
Comparison of two unlike things
Words that appeal to the five senses
Words that represent sounds
Words or phrases not to be taken literally
Repetition of the ending consonant sound
Giving animals or objects human characteristics
Repetition of vowel sounds
Comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or resembles.
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Text: Verdana, 16 pts. The students will use the keyboard to type the letter of the correct response beside the poetic device. When the student presses the next screen, the system will hyperlink to the page that “Congratulations! You correctly identified the definitions of all of the poetic devices!” or in the event that some of the responses are incorrect, the next page will highlight the incorrect responses and indicate the correct answer. Answers: 1.I, 2.B, 3.D, 4.C, 5.G, 6.A, 7.H, 8.F,9.E

27. Assessment
Armed with your knowledge of the poetic devices, you are now ready to analyze sample lines of poetry and determine which device they represent.
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Student reads the directions for the assessment piece.
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28. Question 1
Which poetic device is the line of poetry which reads, “princes and paupers are people a word apart” an example of?
A) personification
B) alliteration
C) metaphor
D) simile
Correct response: Letter B) alliteration. Correct response hyperlinks to text box with “Correct” statement and the click of the button goes to the next question. Incorrect goes back prompts “Incorrect. Try again.” And student can try a different answer.
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29. Question 2
What poetic device is the line “the hands of time molded my distaste” an example of?
A) personification
B) alliteration
C) metaphor
D) simile
Correct answer: A) personification. Correct response hyperlinks to text box with “Correct” statement and the click of the button goes to the next question. Incorrect goes back prompts textbox with “Incorrect. Try again.” Student can try a different answer.
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30. Question 3
What poetic device is the line “her smile is like the noon day sun” an example of?
A) personification
B) alliteration
C) metaphor
D) simile
Correct Answer: D) simile. Correct response hyperlinks to “Correct” statement and the click of the button goes to the next question. Incorrect response prompts “Incorrect. Try again.” and students can try a different response.

31. Question 4
The line from Psalm 22 that reads “I am poured out like water…my heart is like wax” is an example of:
A) Alliteration
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
The correct answer is B) Simile.

32. Question 5
In “Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the line which reads “It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers” is an example of
A) Assonance
B) Alliteration
C) Personification
D) Onomatopoeia
The correct answer is C) Personification.

33. Question 6
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” contains a line that reads “O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn’s being.” This is an example of:
A) Alliteration
B) Assonance
C) Consonance
D) Onomatopoeia
The correct answer is A) Alliteration.

34. Question 7
In “Summer Remembered” by Isabella Gardner the line which reads “The pizzicato plinkle of ice in an auburn uncle’s amber glass” is an example of:
A) Assonance
B) Consonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) simile
Answer: A or C

35. Question 8
Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” contains a line which reads “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.” This is an example of:
A) Assonance
B) Consonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Alliteration
The correct answer is D) Alliteration

36. Question 9
The line which reads “I was a lonely cloud” is an example of:
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Alliteration
D) Assonance
Answer: B

37. Question 10
Emily Dickinson’s lines of poetry which read “The Mountain sat upon the Plain/ In his tremendous Chair--/ His observation omnifold,/ His inquest, everywhere—” This is an example of:
A) Personification
B) Metaphor
C) Simile
D) Alliteration
The correct answer is A) Personification.

38. Congratulations
You have successfully completed the assessment page. You answered the assessment questions with ___ % accuracy.
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The system will calculate the percentage of correct responses.

39. Evaluation Check the response that pertains to you:
_____ I feel more confident in my ability to identify the poetic devices.
_____ I have a definite appreciation for poetry and feel more confident in my ability to process what I read based on my knowledge of the poetic devices.
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Students will check on the statement(s) that pertain to them then click continue.

40. Thank you
Thank you for your participation in this program. Special thanks to the Virginia Department of Education for the released Standards of Learning items that were used as samples for the poetry selections.
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