Poetic Devices

Question 0

Scene

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A scene can be external physical setting- a hill side, a city a pond. A scene can also be internal- it can take place in the speakers mind

Question 1

Imagery

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A single word or phrase that appeals to one of our senses.

Question 2

Personification

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Kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

Question 3

Simile

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Two unlike things are compared using words such as like, as, Than or resembles

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Metaphor

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Comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing

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Narration

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Any kind of writing or speaking that tells a story a series of related events

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Tone

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Writers or speakers attitude toward a subject a character or an audience

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Rhyme

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The repetition of the sound of a stressed vowel and any other sound that follows it with in example nails and whales, material and cereal, icesicle and bicycle

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Rhyme scheme

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The pattern of rhyme in a poem indicated by the use of a different letter of the alphabet for each rhyme

Question 9

Symbol

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Person, place, thing, or even that stands for itself and for something beyond itself

Question 10

Alliteration

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Repetion of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together in a pattern. Example flung, flirt, flutter, (from “the raven”)