Saturday 17 January 2015

Jane, poetic devices

1.Rhyme:
-e.g. She was a little tense. The notice made no sense

2.Alliteration
-e.g. The big bad bear attacked all the little bunnies in the forest.

3.Onomatopoeia
-e.g. The clanging pots and pans awoke the baby.

4.Simile
-e.g. Your explanation is as clear as mud.

5.Metaphor
-e.g. It is going to be clear skies from now on.Hyperbole

6.Hyperbole
-e.g. I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

7.personification
-e.g. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky

8.symbolism

-e.g. Wild Asters, spring and daisies are symbols of youth and bitter autumn is a symbol of death

9.imagery

-e.g. On a starry winter night in Portugal Where the ocean kissed the southern shore There a dream I never thought would come to pass Came and went like time spent through an hourglass

10.free verse

-e.g. The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

11.allusion

-e.g. I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s

12.rhythm
-e.g. Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life













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