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Dav Public School, Sreshtha Vihar Class Vi English Poetic Devices Handout

This document provides definitions and examples of common poetic devices including similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and repetition. It explains that poetic devices are tools used by poets to create rhythm, enhance meaning, and intensify mood. Examples are given for each device to illustrate its use in poetry.

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Dav Public School, Sreshtha Vihar Class Vi English Poetic Devices Handout

This document provides definitions and examples of common poetic devices including similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and repetition. It explains that poetic devices are tools used by poets to create rhythm, enhance meaning, and intensify mood. Examples are given for each device to illustrate its use in poetry.

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DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL, SRESHTHA VIHAR

CLASS VI ENGLISH POETIC DEVICES HANDOUT


There are many types of poetic devices that can be used to create a powerful, memorable
poem. We will discuss their purpose to understand the importance of using them
effectively.

Definition
Poetry can follow a strict structure, or none at all, but many different types of poems use
poetic devices. Poetic devices are tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance a
poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. These devices help piece the poem
together, much like a hammer and nails join planks of wood together.

Some of these devices are used in literature as well, but for the sake of clarity, we will
look at all of these devices through the lens of poetry.
A simile is a comparison between two unlike things. Similes use the words 'like' or 'as.'
A simile can get the reader to look at something in a different way.

For example

Music is like a dream

I was hungry as a bear

In contrast to a simile, a metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things without


using the words like or as. A metaphor uses the senses and compares two things in a
meaningful way. A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer
meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was",
to make the comparison.

For example
Her hair is silk

The white puffy clouds are cotton balls in the sky

A personification is a figure of speech in which inanimate or abstract objects are


given human traits or qualities, such as emotions, movements and speech. Human
attributes may be given to an animal, object or idea.

For example

The sun played a game of peek-a-boo with the clouds

The sunflower nodded their yellow heads

An alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. It refers to the words in


the poem that have the same beginning sounds. Most tongue twisters are examples of
alliteration.

For example

Last spring Polly planted purple pansies in her garden

Betty bought some butter but the butter was bitter so Betty bought some better butter
to make the bitter butter better.

Repitition The repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. It is used to emphasize


something which is important, clarify certain ideas, help make poem visually attractive,
create a better flow or rhythm in the poem, establish meaning.

For example

Snowflakes swirled and twirled, swirled and twirled in the storm

"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,


And no one can talk to a horse of course,
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed."

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