1. Poetic Devices

2. Poetic Devices
Poetic devices, techniques, gimmicks - whatever you want to call them, there are "tricks" that make poems "work."
You see and hear poetic devices everyday – in poems, prose, song lyrics, and advertisements.

3. Alliteration The repetition of the initial consonant sounds. Example:
terrible truths and lullaby lies

4. Imagery Language that evokes sensory images. Examples:
drip of ruby teardrops (aural/sound)
to wake up where the green grass grows (visual/sight)
lips like cool sweet tea (oral/taste)
streaming through a velvet sky (tactile/touch)
the stench of the underworld (olfactory/smell)

5. Metaphor
A comparison of unlike things (made without using like or as).
Example:
I am the "Lone Star"

6. Onomatopoeia A word that imitates the sound it represents. Examples:
The fly buzzed past
He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes.

7. Personification
Giving human qualities or characteristics to animals or objects.
Examples:
The tree groaned.
The wind whispered.

8. Repetition Repeating of words, phrases, lines, sounds, or stanzas.
Example:
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn....

9. Rhyme
a pattern of words that contains similar sounds at the end of the line
Example:
life for me is wild and free

10. Simile A comparison using like or as. Example:
notes dance across the page like stars twinkle in the night sky

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12. Rhyme scheme
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or in lyrics for music.
It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme.
Example:
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, A
While I have eyes to see; B
And having none, yet I will keep A
A heart to weep for thee. B

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14. Point of view
The author's point-of-view concentrates on the speaker, or "teller", of the story or poem.
1st person: the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective (uses "I")
Example:
Then, turning to my love, I said, `The dead are dancing with the dead, The dust is whirling with the dust.'

15. Point of view (con’t)
3rd person: the speaker is not part of the story, but tells about the other characters.
Example:
His story is old, His heart is young, He the strong, noble one.