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Poetic Devices Worksheetwith Examples

The document provides definitions and examples of various poetic devices including end-stopped, enjambment, refrain, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, simile, metaphor, symbol, hyperbole, personification, metonymy, allusion, and apostrophe. It includes a brief definition and example for each device.

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Poetic Devices Worksheetwith Examples

The document provides definitions and examples of various poetic devices including end-stopped, enjambment, refrain, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, simile, metaphor, symbol, hyperbole, personification, metonymy, allusion, and apostrophe. It includes a brief definition and example for each device.

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Poetic Devices Worksheet

Poetic Device Definition Example My Own Example


end-stopped when the end of a sentence or Aunt Victoria frowned and pronounced,
clause coincides with the end of a Tarragon. No one disagreed.
line, creating a logical pause at its
close

enjambment occurs when the sense of a line . . .We spin and spin
runs over to the succeeding line; back to the villages of our mothers’ mothers.
also called a run-on line We leave behind
the men, a white blur
like moonlight on empty bajra fields
seen from a speeding train.
refrain a phrase, line, or lines repeated at see Poe's use of "nothing more" and "Nevermore" in
intervals during a poem, especially "The Raven"
at the close of stanzas

alliteration the repetition of a speech sound I am your son, amá, seeking


(typically a consonant) at the the security of shadows,
beginning of a word in a sequence
of nearby words

assonance the repetition of identical or The Lotos blooms below the barren peak:
similar vowels The Lotos blows by every winding creek:
All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone
Thro' every hollow cave and alley lone,
Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotos-dust is
blown.
consonance the repetition of a sequence of two So dawn goes down to day.
or more consonants, with a change Nothing gold can stay.
in the intervening vowel; repetition
of consonants, especially at the end
of stressed syllables
onomatopoeia a word whose sound seems to The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
resemble closely the sound it And murmuring of innumerable bees.
denotes

rhyme the repetition of sounds at the end Do not go gentle into that good night.
of words Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Device Definition Example My Own Example
simile a comparison between two In the spring our palms peeled like snakes.
different things using "like" or
"as"

metaphor an implied comparison between Their high keening is an electric net


things essentially unlike pulling us in, girls who have never seen
the old land. . .

symbol a word or an image that signifies all I wanted was to be


something other than what it one of those hybrid
represents, with multiple ornamental plums
meanings and connotations whose blossoms are sweet and glorious
but fall to the ground
without ever bearing fruit.
hyperbole the use of exaggeration for effect Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

personification an inanimate object or concept is Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch,
given human characteristics or Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the
feelings dark,

metonymy an object, place, or person is used As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,
to represent something with which Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap—
it is closely associated ....................................
As he swung toward them holding up the hand
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
The life from spilling.
allusion a passing reference to a literary or I got into a thing
historical person, place, or event, with someone
or to another literary work because I called her
miss ann/kennedy/rockerfeller/hughes
instead of ms.
apostrophe a direct address to an absent Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:
person or abstract entity England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen,

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