Poetic Devices by Camden Wolford

Imagery: Words used to give a visual image

camden_wolford — 2017-10-10 12:08:37 UTC

Example: I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow

Mood: Shows feeling through words

camden_wolford — 2017-10-10 12:12:42 UTC

Example: He was a giant
When I was just a kid
I was always trying
To do everything he did
I can still remember every lesson he taught me
Growing up learning how to be like my old man

Stanza: Verses put together in a poem that rhyme

camden_wolford — 2017-10-10 12:18:08 UTC

Example: Whether or not we find what we are seeking
is idle, biologically speaking

Repetition: Repetition is when words or phrases are repeated in a literary work

camden_wolford — 2017-10-10 12:22:00 UTC

Example: Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I'm not too blind to see

I'll never be your beast of burden
So let's go home and draw the curtains
Music on the radio
Come on baby make sweet love to me

Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I'm not too blind to see

Beast of Burden, The Rolling Stones

Speaker: A speaker is someone who delivers a speech or a device that makes sounds louder

camden_wolford — 2017-10-10 12:26:47 UTC

Example: The road not taken poem. The speaker is a conflicted person, who does not tell anything about himself

Figure of Speech: A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase

camden_wolford — 2017-10-11 12:14:09 UTC

Example: She sells seashells

onomatopoeia: The use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect.

camden_wolford — 2017-10-11 12:18:20 UTC

Example: Roar by Katy perry- 'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar!

Alliteration: The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane)

camden_wolford — 2017-10-11 12:28:25 UTC

Sally sells seashells on the seashore

Rhyme: A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs

camden_wolford — 2017-10-11 23:38:19 UTC

Example: I don't own no ice, just got clean rap
Don't ever two step, I just rock, lean, snap - "City is mine" By Drake

Poetry: Writing that usually involves figurative language and lines that have rhythm and sometimes rhyme

camden_wolford — 2017-10-11 23:50:31 UTC

Example:

Walking through a field with my little brother Seth I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow.
For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels
had been shot and dissolved when they hit the ground. He asked who had shot them and I said a farmer. Then we were on the roof of the lake.
The ice looked like a photograph of water. Why he asked. Why did he shoot them. I didn't know where I was going with this. They were on his property, I said. When it's snowing, the outdoors seem like a room. Today I traded hellos with my neighbor.
Our voices hung close in the new acoustics. A room with the walls blasted to shreds and falling. We returned to our shoveling, working side by side in silence. But why were they on his property, he asked.

—David Berman

Rhythm: Rhythm is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.

camden_wolford — 2017-10-12 00:03:05 UTC

Example: Silence by Khalid and Marshmello - "Yeah, I'd rather be a lover than a fighter
'Cause all my life, I've been fighting
Never felt a feeling of comfort
All this time, I've been hiding
And I never had someone to call my own, oh nah
I'm so used to sharing
Love only left me alone
But I'm at one with the silence

I found peace in your violence
Can't tell me there's no point in trying
I'm at one, and I've been quiet for too long
I found peace in your violence
Can't tell me there's no point in trying
I'm at one, and I've been silent for too long"

Meter: Meter is a poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound.

camden_wolford — 2017-10-12 11:54:57 UTC

Example:

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them

Volley'd and thunder'd; - Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

Free verse: Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms

camden_wolford — 2017-10-12 12:04:44 UTC

Example: Fog by Carl Sandburg "The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on

End Rhyme: End rhyme occurs when the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other

camden_wolford — 2017-10-12 12:09:15 UTC

Example: A Word is Dead (By Emily Dickinson) "A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”

Simile: Comparing words using like or as

camden_wolford — 2017-10-12 12:11:15 UTC

Example:

Your teeth are like stars; They come out at night.They come back at dawn When they’re ready to bite.

Metaphor: Comparing two separate things

camden_wolford — 2017-10-12 12:14:05 UTC

Example: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day,” Sonnet 18

Internal Rhyme: Internal rhyme is a poetic device which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other

camden_wolford — 2017-10-12 12:19:18 UTC

Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary - Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven)

Personification: an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities.

camden_wolford — 2017-10-12 12:22:34 UTC

Example: "When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze." I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (by William Wordsworth)