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Poetic Device s (Definitions with Examples ) and Rhyme Page 4 Synaesthesia : the deliberate mixing of the senses . Example: “I hear it in the deep heart’s core” (Yeats). Example: “The listening eyes of th e tall knights” (Tennyson). Rhyme Rhyme : the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are
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Rhyme: This is the one device most commonly associated with poetry by the general public. Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and everything following it, are said to rhyme. Example: time, slime, mime Double rhymes include the final two syllables.
Poetic Devices Motif- a reoccurring theme, idea, subject, etc. in writing, music, or art Ex: Many African American poems have motifs of freedom, slavery, hope, and oppression etc. Ex: Many of Shakespeare’s motifs are love, death, and revenge Repetition - restating an idea, theme, word, etc. in order to better prove a point
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Poetic Devices Glossary Basic Terms connotation: the implied or suggested meaning connected with a word denotation: the dictionary meaning of a word literal meaning: limited to the simplest, ordinary, most obvious meaning figurative meaning: associative or connotative meaning; representational meter: measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a ...
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When crafting poems, poets evoke and expose meaning, in part, by means of the following Poetic Elements: Music – Meaningful poems are pleasing to the ear. Poets use Sound Devices to interpose music into their poems. Alliteration – repetition of the initial sound in a line of verse. Assonance – repetition of vowel sound in a line of verse.
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FORMS There was an old woman made of odds and ends Who stole from family, foes and friends; There was an old woman from the East, not West Who simply could not stop, regardless of trying her best.
Poetic Device playing with sound. Example in the song, rhyme, or poem. alliteration. To use the same sound over and over again. rhyme. Using words that sound alike. onomatopoeia. A word that sounds ike the word it represents, like “Boom!” or “Bang!”.
