Deon's Poetic Devices

Poetic devices

Rhyme

E.g:Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!

Alliteration

E.g:A big bully beats a baby boy.

Onomatopoeia

E.g:The books fell on the table with a loud thump.

Simile

E.g:Our soldiers are as brave as lions.

Metaphor

E.g:My teacher is a dragon.

Hyperbole

E.g:Your suitcase weighs a ton!

Personification

E.g:The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.

Symbolism

E.g:A red rose or red color stands for love or romance.

Imagery

E.g:It was dark and dim in the forest.

Free Verse

E.g:After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;

After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,

Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,

Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship.

Allusion 

E.g:The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes.

– This is an allusion to one of Greek Mythology’s origin myth, “Pandora’s box”.

Rhythm

E.g:We romped until the pans

Slid from the kitchen shelf;

My mother's countenance

Could not unfrown itself.