Applying Poetic Devices

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

• meter

The words a poet uses to describe one thing by comparing it to something else with which we are more familiar.

• figurative language

• imagery

• alliteration

• refrain

Comparing one thing to another without using "like" or "as".

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• blank verse

She was as wise as an owl.

• metaphor

• rhyme

• meter

• simile

The use of sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• figurative language

Used to show a slight pause when reading poetry.

• refrain

• meter

• line break

• white space

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse creating a rhythm.

• rhythm

• rhyme

• meter

• personification

An unrhymed verse.

• blank verse

• free verse

• simile

• stanza

Poetry that does not follow a set pattern or form.

• blank verse

• free verse

• refrain

• mataphor

CRASH!

• personification

• allireration

• onomatopoeia

• rhythm