Poetic Techniques Flashcards

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Onomatopoeia

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Saying words as they look

BANG!!!!

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Simile

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Describing things using (like,as or than)

The sound of the music was as sweet as candy

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Metaphor

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Comparing two things

As sweet as candy

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Rhyme

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Two things sound the same

Hat-Bat

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Haiku

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Japanese poem usually about nature

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Acrostic

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Spelling out words and writing words beside them
B…….
A…….
T…….

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Alliteration

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The first letter of each word used in each word

Hungry Hippos

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Limerick

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Five line poem

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Rhythm

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The beat of a poem

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Sonnet

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Old English

Where art thou?

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Personification

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Putting a human action on inanimate object

The chair flew

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Pun

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A play on words

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Assonance

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The repetition of similar vowels

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Hyperbolé

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An extravagant exaggeration

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Tone

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The way the poem is written

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Theme

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The main idea of the poem

Happy,sad

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Genre

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The type of poem

Music,nature