Poetic Devices

I'm growing fonder of my staff; / I'm growing dimmer in the eyes;

I'm growing fainter in my laugh; / I'm growing deeper in my sighs;

Which techniques are being used?

• Rhythm

• Repetition

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Confound the cats! All cats--away-- / Cats of all colors, black, white, gray;

By night a nuisance and by day-- / Confound the cats! All cats, always.

What techniques are being used?

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week, / Beneath the apple-trees;

I thought my eyes were big pork-pies, / And my nose was Stilton cheese.

What techniques are being used?

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

O Sea! whose ancient ripples lie on red-ribbed sands where seaweeds shone;

O moon! whose golden sickle's gone,

Which technique is being used

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Across the moorlands of the Not / We chase the gruesome When;

And hunt the Itness of the What / Through forests of the Then.

Which technique is being used?

• Metophor

• Rhyme

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

BANG!!! There goes another building, / BOOM!!! And there go 2 more,

Said the man who took target practice / In the seat of a military tank.

BAM!!! There goes another. / Life is hard when you don't have a father to guide you.

BOOM!!! You could end up in jail, / BANG!!! You could end up crazy,

AHHHH!!! Or you could end up dead / Because you pressed the wrong button.

What techniques are being used?

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Big Balloons Bounce into the / Big Blue Sky / Up, up, and away / There they go

Which techniques are being used?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Buzz, goes the blue fly, / Hum, goes the bee,

Buzz and hum they cry, / And so do we:

Which technique is being used?

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

There was a crow sat on a stone, / When he was gone, then there was none.

Which technique is being used?

• rhythm

• irony

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Tiger, Tiger burning bright, / in the forests of the night,

Which techniques are being used?

• Rhyme

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration