Poetic Devices

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• personification

• allireration

• onomatopoeia

• rhythm

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

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• figurative language

She was as wise as an owl.

• metaphor

• rhyme

• meter

• simile

Poetry that does not follow a set pattern or form.

• blank verse

• free verse

• refrain

• mataphor

The beat and pace of a poem, often created through the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• Rhyme

• Bass

• Rhythm

• Tempo

Exaggeration. When something is made out to be a lot greater than it is.

"It's a million degrees in here!"

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Rhyme

What is the rhyme pattern?

• AA B CC B

• AA BB CC

• AB AB AC

• AA BC BC

A comparison between two unlike things where one thing is similar to another (using "like" or "as")

"Life is like a box of chocolates"

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Stanza

5-line poem with rhyme scheme AABBA

• limerick

• sonnet

• ballad

• haiku

Max is a pig when he eats.
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor