EXAMPLES of POETRY POETIC DEFINITIONS DEVICES TYPES OF

EXAMPLES of POETRY POETIC DEFINITIONS DEVICES TYPES OF POEMS A WHOLE SOUND BUNCH O’ IMAGERY STUFF 100 pt 100 pt 200 pt 200 pt 300 pt 300 pt 400 pt 400 pt 500 pt 500 pt

THE JUXTAPOSITION OF TWO WORDS WITH OPPOSITE MEANINGS

OXYMORON

A REFERENCE TO A FAMOUS HISTORICAL OR BIBLICAL FIGURE

AN ALLUSION

AN EXAGGERATION IN THE SERVICE OF TRUTH

HYPERBOLE

A STATEMENT OF APPARENT CONTRADICTION

PARADOX

A LITERARY DEVICE WHICH REVEALS CONCEALED OR CONTRADICTORY MEANINGS

IRONY

My love is like a red, red rose

SIMILE

MISERY DANCED ABOUT ME

PERSONIFICATION

I NEARLY DIED LAUGHING

HYPERBOLE

OUR GOALIE IS A WALL!

METAPHOR

Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities".

ALLUSION

Wave after wave in hills each other crowds, As if the deeps resolved to storm the clouds.

A COUPLET

Friends Means sharing, Bittersweet A brand name of love. It is a tie for all time, Longer than the shadows we forget Yet shorter and better than life, or for some longer, Stronger. It balances you, with a pole in One hand a rope in the other, you choose what to use it fo It is forever.

FREE VERSE

from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. . . bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From the battlements of yonder tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O’er covered quite with dead men’s rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man and his shroud;

BLANK VERSE

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

SONNET

A winter’s day In a deep and dark december; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island. I’ve built walls, A fortress deep and mighty, That none may penetrate. I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain. It’s laughter and its loving I disdain. I am a rock, I am an island.

LYRIC

One two buckle my shoe Three, four, knock at the door Five, six, pick up sticks Seven, eight, lay them straight Nine, ten, a big fat hen Eleven, twelve, dig and delve Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courting Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen Seventeen, eighteen, maids in waiting Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty

RHYME

The blade whirred noisily .

ONOMATOPEIOA

NIGHT’S DANK DEW TO DRY

ALLITERATION

HE FEELING SLEEPY

ASSONANCE

The locomotive chugged, coughing and choking through the tunnel

DISSONANCE

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

SIMILE PERSONIFICATION RHYME

There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.

ALLITERATION METAPHOR

Identify the two devices highlighted His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

ASSONANCE RHYME

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring— When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing ;

ALLITERATION CONSONANCE SIMILE

Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

ALLITERATION DISSONANCE / CACOPHANY