Poetic Devices Flashcards
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Metaphor
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Comparing 2 totally different things not using like or as
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Simile
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Using like or as to describe 2 totally different things
Ex. The fox was as fast a lightning
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Symbolism
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Using symbols to represent and idea
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Repetition
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Repeating things to make a piont
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Prose poems
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Poems writes with heightened emotion and imagery also is write. Like a paragraph
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Blues poems
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Mainly writen by African Americans. About struggle hardships and segregation. Lots of slag
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Dialect
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The way word are in a piece
Ex. Yall id
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Alliteration
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Repetition of same sound over and over again in a sentence or statement
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Imagery
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Use ing descriptive words to help the reader get a picture of the situation in there head
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Personification
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Giving human like characteristics to inanimate objects
