LITERARY DEVICESTechniques poets use to add description and meaning
to poetry
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The language and descriptions a writer
uses to create images (word pictures).
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEdevices poets use to describe objects or ideas by
comparing them to something else the reader understands
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A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be
another thingTuesday, January 8, 13
The repetition of consonant sounds at
the beginnings of words that are close together in a single
line of poetryTuesday, January 8, 13
The musical quality produced by the
repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Repeating a sound, word, phrase, or line
to create music, appeal to emotions, or
emphasize an ideaTuesday, January 8, 13
POETIC STRUCTURESThe way poets organize their ideas; some poetic structures have special patterns and meanings
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What is Lyric Poetry?Poetry that expresses the
personal feelings of one speaker (often the poet). Lyric Poems sound like songs; some are even meant to be performed to music
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Example of Lyric Poetry
A Red, Red Roseby Robert Burns
O my Luve's like a red, red roseThat’s newly sprung in June;O my Luve's like the melodieThat’s sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve am I:And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a’ the seas gang dry:
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee well, my only LuveAnd fare thee well, a while!And I will come again, my Luve,Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.
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What is a Ballad?A type of narrative poetry that
tells a story of fatal relationships, tragic events, and other dramatic human situations that address universal themes. Ballads sometimes are set to music, so think of them as a combination of narrative and lyric poetry.
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EXAMPLE“Hope is the Thing With Feathers”
Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest landAnd on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.
For example:“Hope is the thing with
feathers...”(metaphor...comparing
hope to a bird)
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