https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks poetic devices en-us 2017-10-31 01:38:48 UTC 2026-02-27 17:22:39 UTC hello@padlet.com lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/201986394 A simile is a way of describing something by comparing it to something else, usually using the words.
The rain, like
 nervous tapping
 fingers, waited
 impatiently.

]]> 2017-10-31 01:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/201986394 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/201989103 A way of describing by comparing it to something else; implied comparison between two unlike things.
Homework
No one likes it.
Homework is a bee sting on your tongue.

It's the worst!
Homework is dropping your ice-cream.
Cone on the sidewalk.
How awful!
Homework is a deflated balloon.
So depressing !
Let's do away with it.
Homework.

]]> 2017-10-31 01:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/201989103 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/201989496 To give human characteristics to something that is not human.( animals, objects or things).
Hey diddle,
The cat with the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.]]> 2017-10-31 02:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/201989496 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/202004397 Repetition of the first consonant sound at the beginning of words.

Peter Piper picked a peck
 Of pickled peppers.
 A peck of pickled peppers
 Peter Piper picked.
 If Peter Piper picked a peck
 Of pickled peppers,
 Where's the peck of pickled Peppers Peter Piper picked?]]> 2017-10-31 04:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/202004397 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/202005288 the repetition of internal vowel sounds doesn't have to RHYME!!!
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.]]> 2017-10-31 04:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/202005288 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/202359681 when consonance repeat the middle or end of words.
At midnight, the month of June,
I stand beneath my mystic moon.
An opiate vapour, dewy, dim, Exhales out from her golden rim, And, softly dripping drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top, Steals drowsily and musically,
 Into the universal valley.]]> 2017-11-01 01:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/202359681 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/202360453 repeating words or a word for effect.
Last night I dreamt about chickens, They were playing on my pillows, They were nesting in my head,
 They were walking in my room, They were lying on my bed.]]> 2017-11-01 01:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/202360453 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203158294 words that are sounds.
Hark!,hark!
Bow-wow.
The watch-dogs bark!
Bow-wow.
Hark,hark! I hear the strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry,'cock-a-diddle-dow!]]> 2017-11-03 01:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203158294 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203160069 an exaggerated used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasise a point.
His bark breaks the sound barrier
His nose is as cold as an ice box.
A wag of his tail causes hurricanes
His jumping causes falling rocks.
He eats a mountain of dog food
And drinks a waterfall dry.
But though he breaks the bank
He's the apple of my eye.]]> 2017-11-03 01:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203160069 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203715075 language that appeals to the senses.Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms to our senses.]]> 2017-11-06 01:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203715075 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203715537 An idiom refers to a construction of words or expressions different from the ordinary meaning of the words.]]> 2017-11-06 01:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203715537 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203716232 When words are arranged in such a  way that they make a pattern or beat.

]]> 2017-11-06 02:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203716232 lsponneck https://padlet.com/lsponneck/yzkwnvmikdks/wish/203731709 when words have the same end sound, happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines.
Humpty Dumpty
Sat on the wall,
Humpty Dumpty
Had a great fall.

All the kings horses,
And all the kings men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

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