Kiana Kristina Blake Bryce Poetic devices Examples This bread is as soft as concrete Clear as mud That was almost as fun as a root canal Verbal Irony When the speaker says something that is opposite to what they really mean ID: 255171
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BriannaKianaKristinaBlake Bryce
Poetic devicesSlide2
Examples: “This bread is as soft as concrete”“Clear as mud”
“That was almost as fun as a root canal”
Verbal Irony
When the speaker says something that is opposite to what they really mean
. Similar to sarcasm.Slide3
“Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it’s there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you”
Example in Poetry
“Humanity I Love You” by E.E. Cummings Slide4
When an outcome is contradictory to what was expected.
Example:
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge
“Water, water, everywhere
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water everywhere.Nor any drop to drink” Situational IronySlide5
When a situation is understood by the audience but not grasped by one of more of the characters. Can be used to create emotions such as suspense or humor in order to draw the audience into the story.
Example: In “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare
Romeo is told that Juliet has died and plans to kill himself. However, the audience knows that she is just in a deep sleep waiting for him to return.
Dramatic IronySlide6
The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words or words that are close together in a sentence.
Example from Edgar Allen Poe’s
“The Raven”
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;”
AlliterationSlide7
Example from Robert Frost’s “The Tufts of Flowers”
`
As
all must
be,' I
said within my heart,`Whether they work together or apart.' But as I said it,
swift there passed me by
On
noiseless
wing a 'wildered butterfly,
Seeking
with memories grown dim
o'er
night
Some
resting flower of yesterday's delight.
Attempting to group words together with complimentary consonant sounds that allow for the words to sound smooth, harmonious and pleasing to the ear when spoken (this is the opposite of cacophony).
EuphonySlide8
Both are uses of clashing and unmelodious sounds within a group of words. These create the opposite effects that euphony, assonance and consonance do within a piece of writing.
Example:
“The Dalliance of Eagles” by Walt Whitman
“Skirting
the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space together, The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating
wheel…”
Cacophony/DissonanceSlide9
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. It is used to reinforce the meaning of words or assist in setting the mood of a piece of writing.
Example:
“Early Moon”
by Carl
Sandburg
“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the o
ldest of living things.
S
o
o
ld it is that n
o
man
knows how and why the first po
ems came.”AssonanceSlide10
When the repetition of consonants in a word or phrase is emphasized by the differing vowels within them.
Examples:
Linger, longer and
langour
– the n’s and r’s show consonance
Rider, reader, ruder – the d’s and r’s show consonanceConsonanceSlide11
An instance of using a word
or phrase more
than once in a short
passage. It is used as a way of dwelling on
or emphasizing a point.
RepetitionExample:
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep
.”Slide12
When a person exclaims to or makes a speech towards a person who is dead or absent from the story, or to an element which is personified.
Apostrophe
Example:
In “Macbeth” by Shakespeare
Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth and speaks out loud to him about how he should kill King Duncan, though Macbeth isn’t there.Slide13
The act of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.
Examples:
Passed away instead of died
Big boned instead of heavy or overweight
Calling a person a senior instead of old
EuphemismSlide14
The formation of a word by imitation of a sound of the objects or actions it is referred to.
Examples:
The cat
meowed
The pans went crashing to the floor and made a big
BANG!onomatopoeiaSlide15
Question may be asked for effect, but no answer is needed. Rhetorical questions are commonly used in speeches and informal types of writing, and often provoke thought.
Examples:
“If
practice makes perfect , and no one is perfect, then why practice
?”
If your friend jumped off a bridge , would you do it too?rhetorical question