Transcript Poetic Devices - Madison County Schools

Poetic Devices
The Sounds of Poetry
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Onomatopoeia
When a word’s pronunciation imitates its
sound.
“Rat-a-tat” hammers the steel rim.
Buzz
Hiss
Beep
Fizz
Clink
Vroom
Woof
Boom
Zip
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Repetition
Repeating a word or words for effect.
Nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
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Rhythm
When words are arranged in such a way
that they make a pattern or beat. Words in
rap songs have a certain beat or “flow”
very similar to words in poems.
Authors create rhythm by making lines contain
the same number of syllables or by repeating
the same word over and over.
Hint: hum the words instead of saying them.
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Count the syllables in each line.
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, ___
Home again, home again, jiggety jig. ___
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog, ___
Home again, home again, jiggety jog. ___
To market, to market, to buy a plum bun, ___
Home again, home again, market is done. ___
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Rhyme
When two words sound alike. Run and done
rhyme with each other. Rhyme can happen at the
beginning, end, or middle of lines.
You can describe rhyme scheme in two ways. You
can assign a letter to the sound of each line’s last
word. You can also describe where the rhyming
words are.
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Example of rhyme scheme
A castle floats on swirls of white. (A)
A dragon soars with all his might.(A)
A giant in a splendid pose, (B)
A walrus with a silly nose. (B)
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You try! Assign a letter to the rhyme scheme.
Susan went to school today ____
And met a new friend, Hannah. ____
They hopped and skipped at recess ____
And split a sweet banana. ____
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Internal rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another
word on the same line.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
Pondered weak and weary.
Write two lines that have internal rhyme and
underline the rhyming words.
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Alliteration
When consonant sounds in words are
repeated.
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.
We lurk late.
We shoot straight.
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You try!
Create one or more lines of poetry that uses
alliteration. Circle the alliteration!
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Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line or
lines of poetry. It does not have to rhyme!
Ex. right, night, fine, sight, kite,
Where is the assonance in the lines?
The lake faded into the distance as the rain
muddled our vision of its majesty.
Is alliteration present?
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Personification
Personification is when things that aren’t
alive are given human qualities.
The smiling moon lit up the night sky.
A person can smile, but a moon can’t.
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Your turn again!
Write one line of poetry using
personification.
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You’re becoming such a passionate poet!
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Practice
• Use your power point notes and write the
poetic devices used in each of the
following examples of poetry.
• Read the example more than once!!!
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The cuckoo in our cuckoo clock
was wedded to an octopus.
She laid a single wooden egg
and hatched a cuckoocloctopus.
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very little love is not so bad
or very little life
what counts
is waiting on walls
i was born for this
i was born to hustle roses down the
avenues of the dead.
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Homework! Oh, homework!
I hate you! You stink!
I wish I could wash you
away in the sink.
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Answers
1. Repetition, rhythm, rhyme, and
alliteration.
2. Alliteration, repetition
2. Repetition, rhyme, rhythm, alliteration
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