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Poetry Terms & Examples
Figurative & Stylistic Language:
Devices that enhance and add interest
to the written and spoken word
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Imagery/Sensory Devices Purpose is to create an IMAGE in the reader’s mind
using words to convey the five senses.
1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
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1. Simile
A comparison of two things using the words like or as.
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Examples of a Simile
Bob is hungry as a wolf.
Bob and wolf are the two things
being compared, using “as”
Sue smells like a rose.
Sue & rose are the two things
being compared, using “like”
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2. Metaphor
A comparison of two
things without using
like or as. (Things = person,
place, thing, or thought)
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Examples of a Metaphor
Bob is a hungry wolf.
Bob is compared to a wolf.
Sue is a rose, filling the room with
her sweet scent.
Sue (or Sue’s scent) and rose are
being compared.
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3. Personification
A type of metaphor in
which non-human things
or ideas possess human
qualities or actions.
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Examples of Personification
The wind whispered her name.
Wind is being personified: “wind
whispered”, because “wind” can’t
actually “whisper.”
Justice is blind.
Justice is being personified: blind
justice, because justice has no
actual eyes that could be blinded.
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Sound Devices Purpose is to create a RHYTHM or set the TONE
in the poem.
1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Onomatopoeia
4. Rhyme
A. (True/Pure) Rhyme
B. Internal Rhyme
C. Near/Half Rhyme (or Impure rhyme)
D. Eye Rhyme
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1. Alliteration
The repetition of a
consonant sound at the
beginning of neighboring
words. (Consonants are all the
letters except a, e, i, o, u, and y.)
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Examples of Alliteration
The dark dance of death whisked
her away.
Repetition of the “d” sound in “dark
dance of death”
Like a lucky charm, he looks on.
Repetition of the “l” sound in “Like,”
“lucky,” and “looks”
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2. Assonance
The repetition of vowel
sounds (within stressed
syllables) of neighboring
words. (Vowels are a, e, i, o, u,
and y.)
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Examples of Assonance
Talking and walking, hours on
end.
Repetition of the “ah” sound in
“talking” “walking”
A turtle in the fertile soil.
Repetition of the “er” sound in
“turtle” “fertile”
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3. Onomatopoeia
Words which imitate the
sound they refer to.
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Examples of Onomatopoeia
The eagle whizzed past the
buzzing bees.
“whizzed” and “buzzing”
Rip-roar fire, the gun stutters
on.
“Rip-roar” and “stutters”
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4. Rhyme
A. Rhyme (true or pure
rhyme): Words which end
with the same sounds,
usually at the end of lines.
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Examples of Rhyme
The deepest night
burning bright.
“night” and “bright”
A time to feel,
and a time to heal.
“feel” and “heal”
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4. Rhyme
B. Internal Rhyme: Rhyme within a line.
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Examples of Internal Rhyme
Bright night, a full moon above.
“bright” and “night”
We will stay today and then
we must go.
“stay” and “today”
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4. Rhyme
C. Near/Half Rhyme: Slight or inaccurate
repetition of sounds (also
called impure rhyme).
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Examples of Near/Half Rhyme
On top of the hill,
the moon is full.
“hill” and “full”
Give this to the man,
he’ll know what I mean.
“man” and “mean”
This as also called consonance when the consonants match (man/mean) but the vowel sound doesn’t.
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4. Rhyme
D. Eye Rhyme: Words
that look like they rhyme
(similar spelling), but do
NOT rhyme (also called sight
rhyme).
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Examples of Eye Rhyme
Listen to the water flow,
from above I don’t see how.
“flow” and “how”
When the game is over,
a true champion we’ll discover.
“over” and “discover”
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Miscellaneous Devices
1. Hyperbole
2. Irony/Paradox
3. Anaphora
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1. Hyperbole
An obvious and deliberate exaggeration (to
emphasize something or for humorous purposes).
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Examples of a Hyperbole
I love you more than life itself.
Love is exaggerated.
He could eat a horse.
His appetite is exaggerated.
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2. Irony
Saying the opposite
of what you actually
mean.
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Examples of Irony
Water, water everywhere,
but not a drop to drink.
Surrounded by water in the ocean,
but none of it is drinkable.
The directions were as clear as mud.
Obviously, they weren’t very clear
directions (this is also a simile!).
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2. Paradox
A statement that seems to contradict or oppose itself, yet actually reveals some truth.
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Examples of a Paradox It’s hard work doing nothing.
Youth is wasted on the young.
The more we know, the less we understand.
The less you have, the more you are free. (Or …the more you have.)
I can resist anything but temptation.
Her silence was deafening.
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3. Anaphora
The repetition of words at the beginning of
clauses.
Purpose is to add emphasis/meaning or
build to a climax.
EXAMPLE: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I
Have a Dream Speech”
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4. Epistrophe
The repetition of words at the end of clauses.
Purpose is to add emphasis/meaning or build to
a climax.
Example: "For no government is better than the
men who compose it, and I want the best, and
we need the best, and we deserve the best."
(Senator John F. Kennedy, speech at
Wittenberg College, Oct. 17, 1960)
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How Figurative & Stylistic
Devices are used in Song
Lyrics
I have provided 3 song lyrics. With a
partner or small group, High light as many
devices as you can. Which group can find
the most before lunch?
Listen to the songs (if you have ear buds…)
Hint: I have given you what to look for on the song lyric page.
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Practice: Group work With a partner or group, find school-appropriate song
lyrics and pick out examples of figurative and stylistic
devices.
Which group can come up with the most examples in a
single song in 15 minutes or less?
Partner/Group- Lyric Work-
Please READ the last sheet in your
packet! (Rubric on the back)