Poetic Devices by Lizeth Reyes-Garcia https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4 en-us 2016-10-13 12:05:36 UTC 2016-10-25 12:07:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Imagery lizeth_reyes1 https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/130398262 Def Imagery is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses.
Ex:“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”

cit: "Imagery - Examples and Definition of Imagery." Literary Devices. 01 Dec. 2015. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.

]]> 2016-10-13 12:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/130398262 Mood lizeth_reyes1 https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/130401435 Def: mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.

Ex:“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

cit:"Mood - Examples and Definition of Mood." Literary Devices. 11 Mar. 2015. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-13 12:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/130401435 Stanza lizeth_reyes1 https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131099689 Def:a stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.


Ex:“Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given”

Cit:"Stanza - Examples and Definition of Stanza." Literary Devices. 11 Mar. 2015. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. 

]]> 2016-10-17 12:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131099689 Repetition https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131419841 Def: Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.
Ex: I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.

Cit:"Repetition - Examples and Definition of Repetition." Literary Devices. 04 Nov. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-18 11:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131419841 Speaker https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131421470 Def: The speaker is the voice or "persona" of a poem.

Ex:Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Cit:Poe, By Edgar Allan. "Speaker/ Persona - Examples in Poetry."Speaker/ Persona - Examples in Poetry. Web. 18 Oct. 2016]]> 2016-10-18 11:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131421470 Figure Of Speech https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131422708 Def:An expressive, nonliteral use of language.
Ex:
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
My heart is like a rainbow shell…
Cit:"Figure of Speech - Examples and Definition of Figure of Speech."Literary Devices. 03 June 2016. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.
]]> 2016-10-18 11:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131422708 Onomatopoeia https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131423913 Def:Onomatopoeia is the use or format of words whose sounds imitate their meanings.
Ex:
“The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees…”

Cit:"Onomatopoeia - Examples and Definition of Onomatopoeia."Literary Devices. 30 Oct. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.
]]> 2016-10-18 12:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131423913 Alliteration https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131425295 Def:Alliteration is a literary device that repeats a speech sound in a sequence of words that are close to each other.
Ex:Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
Cit:"8 Song Lyrics That Use Alliteration - Literary Devices." Literary Devices. 22 Apr. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-18 12:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131425295 Rhyme https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131426336 Def:A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs.
Ex:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses, And all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!

Cit:By Warmwell Cross on to a Cove I Know,. "Rhyme - Examples and Definition of Rhyme." Literary Devices. 11 Mar. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.
]]> 2016-10-18 12:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131426336 Poetry https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131427244 Def:a : something likened to poetry especially in beauty of expression
Ex:But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade
Cit:"10 Beautiful Allusions in Poetry - Literary Devices." Literary Devices. 16 Mar. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-18 12:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131427244 Rhythm https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131428104 Def:Rhythm is the pattern of stresses within a line of verse.

Ex:“And Life–blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound.”

Cit:"Rhythm - Definition and Examples of Rhythm." Literary Devices. 11 Mar. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-18 12:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131428104 Meter https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131429350 Def:Meter is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables tend to be longer and unstressed shorter.
Ex:Shadows pointed towards the pithead:

In the sun the slagheap slept.

Down the lane came men in pitboots

Coughing oath-edged talk and pipe-smoke

Shouldering off the freshened silence.

Cit:By a Finger Entwined in His Hair…. "Meter - Examples and Definition of Meter." Literary Devices. 11 Mar. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.
]]> 2016-10-18 12:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131429350 Free-verse https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131430361 Def:Free verse is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.
Ex:Come slowly, Eden
Lips unused to thee.
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As the fainting bee,
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Counts his nectars—alights,
And is lost in balms!

Cit:"Free Verse - Definition and Examples of Free Verse." Literary Devices. 11 Mar. 2015. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-18 12:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131430361 End-rhyme https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131430427 Def:End rhyme is when the last syllables within a verse rhyme. T
Ex:“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

Cit:"End Rhyme - Examples and Definition of End Rhyme." Literary Devices. 08 Dec. 2015. Web. 19 Oct. 2016
]]> 2016-10-18 12:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131430427 Simile lizeth_reyes1 https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131743802 Def:A simile is an easy way to compare two things, so examples of simile poems include any poem that makes comparisons using the words "like" or "as."
Ex:“I wandered lonely as a cloud
that floats on high o’er vales and hills.”
Cit:By Choosing This Simile, Wordsworth Describes His Loneliness. "Simile - Examples and Definition of Simile." Literary Devices. 20 Mar. 2015. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-19 11:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131743802 Metaphor lizeth_reyes1 https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131744247 Def: Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics.
Ex:“She is all states, and all princes, I.”
Cit:"Metaphor - Examples and Definition of Metaphor." Literary Devices. 23 Dec. 2015. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-19 11:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131744247 Internal-rhyme lizeth_reyes1 https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131745011 Def: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.
Ex:The ship was cheer’d, the harbor clear’d,
And every day, for food or play,
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,..
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmer’d the white moonshine.….
Cit:"Internal Rhyme - Definition and Examples of Internal Rhyme."Literary Devices. 29 Oct. 2015. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-19 11:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131745011 Personification lizeth_reyes1 https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131745940 Def:Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.
Ex:“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.”
Cit:"Personification - Examples and Definition of Personification."Literary Devices. 30 Oct. 2015. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.]]> 2016-10-19 12:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lizeth_reyes1/c6wnh18v77t4/wish/131745940