Poetic Devices Theme The main idea or meaning

Poetic Devices

Theme The main idea or meaning of a text. Often, this is an insight about human life revealed in a literary work https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=H 3_Bb 9 w. GOb. Y

Imagery Words and phrases that appeal to the five senses https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=X 4 LVTn 4 d_-Q

Sound The poet uses rhyme, rhythm, and/or repetition to help the listener to hear the poem.

Rhythm The beat of a poem

Lines Phrases or words in a stanza

Form What a poem looks like

Figurative Language employing one or more figures of speech (simile, metaphor, imagery, etc. )

Simile Comparison using like or as

Metaphor Comparison NOT using like or as

Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=nao. Bk. J 4 r 7 Zg

Hyperbole Extreme exaggeration

Rhyme Scheme/Rhyme The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza. Example: ababbcbcc

Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds at the BEGINNING or words https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=DGJu 6 Lz. Uf. YM “Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better. ” (Betty Botter, Mother Goose)

Onomatopoeia A word that represents a sound

Stanza The division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.