By Joshua Stanley

PoetryDevices

1Poetic Devices

Speaker- A Person Who Speaks.

Diction- The Choice And Use Of Words And Phrases

In Speech Or Writing.

Tone- The Overall Quality Of A Musical Or Vocal

Sound.

Imagery- Visually Descriptive Or Figurative Lan-

guage.

Allusion- Calling Something To Mind Without Di-

rectly Mentioning It.

Simile- A Figure Of Speech Comparing Several

Things Using Like Or As.

Personification- Giving Human Characteristics To

Non-human Things.

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Metaphor-a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action it is not liter-ally applicable.

Refrain- repeated line or number in a song or poem

Symbol-A thing that represents or stands for some-thing else.

Stanza-A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

Alliteration-The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning/adjacent connected words.

Onomatopoeia-the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named/rhetorical effect.

Enjambment-The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line/ no pause.

Connotation-An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal meaning.

Poetic Devices

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Denotation- The literal meaning of a word in contrast to words suggested.

Euphemism- A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to some-thing unpleasant or embarrassing.

Poetic Devices Video

Is when you take a normal piece of text and with a black marker darken out words leaving only small pieces of text to be used in the poem.

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Section 2

Black Out Poems

! Haikus are poems that consist of three lines starting with 5 syllables then 7 then 5 again. Haikus are poems that are usually about nature.

I don’t like haikus,

I was bored when I wrote this,

It’s not very good.

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Examples

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

Splash! Silence again.

Autumn moonlight-

a worm digs silently

into the chestnut.

Lightning flash-

what I thought were faces

are plumes of pampas grass.

Section 3

HAIKUS

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I AM

I am the boy who lived, I am a wizard

I wonder about the future

I hear voices in my head

I see the future

I want to go to Hogwarts

I am the boy who lived, I am a wizard

I pretend to be a muggle

I feel Voldemort's presence

I touch Ron's face

I worry about my Uncle Serious

I cry about my dead parents

I am the boy who lived, a wizard

I understand magic

I say Expeliamus

I dream about what Voldemort dreams

I try to find all the Horcuxes

I hope to defeat Voldemort

I am the boy who lived, I am a wizard.

By Joshua Dean Stanley/Harry Potterssss

Section 4

I Am

! The differences between English and Italian sonnets is The Italian sonnet is divided into an octave, which is eight lines, and a sestet, which is six linesThe English sonnet is divided into three quatrains, in other words, twelve lines, and a couplet. The rhyme scheme for the Italian sonnet is a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a for the octave and either c-d-e-c-d-e, or c-d-c-d-c-d. The rhyme scheme for the English sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. The main similarity is the fourteen lines.

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The Magic Cow

We are gunna go to the carnival

we will eat cherry ice cream all day long

then we will go to the place where there are

people and puppets playing with children

when we finally leave the puppet place

we will skip all the way to the bathroom

and once we finish there we will go home

after that we can go to the barber

at that barber we will get our beards shaved

then since our manly beards have been removed

we venture out to the magical barn

to fight the magic cow with our utters

if we do our best then we will beat him

when the cow is gone we will rest our heads.

Sonnet

Shakespeare Sonnet

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Petrarchan Sonnet

Concrete Poems are poems that use images as the base for the poem. Ex.

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My concrete poem is called

BaconConcrete

Acrostic poems are poems that take a word and the letters of the word are used to start stanzas like

Just One Silly Hour.

My Acrostic poem will be called “My Swagger Off Da Chain”.

M y swagger be off da chain

Y ou see me walking by

S up ladies

W anna catch a movie

A nd get a bite to eat

G irls be like

G et away freak

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E very day I be swooning the ladies

R ight now you getting swooned.

O nly da best can roll with me

F ollow me on Twitter @SwaggerStan

F o yo information

D on’t forget it

A nd you won’t regret it

C all me up at 641-485-SwagSwagSwag

H it me up on FaceBook @BadgerSwagger

A nd don’t forget to

I nstagram me @Swagalicious

NBD.

Section 8

Acrostic

Free verse poetry is poetry that doesn’t follow rhyme or have a regular meter. It can be about anything.

I hate the rain,

It floods my house

I have to clean it

Man this sucks.

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Free Verse

Parody is a type of poetry that is similar to a song or poem following the same rhythm, but sharing no comparison in meaning.

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Step 1. Go out and by some Crocks

Step 2. Put your feet in the Crocks

Step 3.Now you walk in the Crocks

and thats the way you put your feet in the Crocks.

Parody