Teaching Literary Devices in Poems

Alliteration

• The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

• sound words

• a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated

Imagery

• A comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

• Creates a picture in the reader's mind

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• a deliberate exaggeration

Metaphor

• The attitude or mood the author creates

• The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• A comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

• sound words

Meter

• a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated

• a deliberate exaggeration

• the pattern of rhymes

• the musical quality of a poem

Onomatopoeia

• Sound words

• A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Personification

• Giving things that are not human, the personalities or actions of humans

• to repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem

• The pattern of rhymes

• The musical quality of a poem

Repetition

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• To repeat sounds words, phrases or whole lines in a poem

• the pattern of rhymes

• the attitude or mood the author creates

Rhyme

• Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme

• sound words

• the rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Rhyme Scheme

• The pattern of rhymes

• Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme

• giving things that are human, the personalities or actions of humans

• the musical quality of a poem

Rhythm

• the pattern of rhymes

• The attitude or mood the author creates

• a deliberate exageration

• The musical quality of a poem