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Here are examples of the requested poetic devices: 1. Personification: The old oak tree waved its branches in the wind. 2. Simile: Her smile was as bright as the sun. 3. Metaphor: Her love was a gentle breeze. 4. Alliteration: The playful puppy pounced and pranced. 5. Irony: It was a beautiful day for a rainy picnic.

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Figures of Speech

Here are examples of the requested poetic devices: 1. Personification: The old oak tree waved its branches in the wind. 2. Simile: Her smile was as bright as the sun. 3. Metaphor: Her love was a gentle breeze. 4. Alliteration: The playful puppy pounced and pranced. 5. Irony: It was a beautiful day for a rainy picnic.

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THE “WHY”

WHY IS POETRY IMPORTANT?


• Poetry takes a simple concept and makes it more
powerful and beautiful

• Which one of these poems is better? Why?

The Turtle
breaks from the blue-black
skin of the water, dragging her shell
with its mossy scutes
across the shallows and through the rushes
The Turtle and over the mudflats, to the uprise,
comes out of the water to the yellow sand,
walks across the sand to dig her ungainly feet
digs a nest a nest, and hunker there spewing
and lays some eggs her white eggs down
into the darkness…
By: Mr. Brooks
By: Mary Oliver
■ Mr. Cruz is like a hungry tiger when he gets furious.
■ When he gets furious, Mr. Cruz is one hungry tiger.
EXAMPLES:

• The sailboat danced gracefully past us.

• The flames ate hungrily at the


• burning house.

• The once-proud trees bent


• meekly before the storm.

• The broad, flat rock lay sunning itself by the stream.


Why do we need to know this?
Helps us better understand what the author’s message is.
It helps create vivid or more colorful ways of explaining non
human objects.

What are other reasons why we need to know how to identify


and understand personification?
Let me show you how to identify personification.

1. The sun stretches its warmth across the


land.
Help me with this one
2. Death lays his icy hands on kings
• What is being personified?
• What is it doing?
• Can it do that?
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:
HYPERBOLE
- an exaggerated statement used to make a point.

Examples of hyperbole:
• “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
• “I could sleep for a year.”
• “This book weighs a ton.”
Hyperbole

1. Here is the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of


Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

This is an example of hyperbole!


This is an example of figurative
language!
SOUND DEVICE:
SOUNDS LIKE ONOMATOPOEIA
- the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings.

Examples of onomatopoeia:
• “The bang of a gun.”
• “The hiss of a snake.”
• “The buzz of a bee.”
• “The pop of a firecracker.”
SOUND DEVICE: REPETITION
- the repeating of sound, words, phrases or lines in a poem used to
emphasize an idea or convey a certain feeling.

Examples of repetition:
• “Sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song of
the hope that the present has brought us…”
• “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…”
• “The isolation during my vacation created a situation of relaxation.”
SOUND DEVICE:
I RHYME ALL THE TIME AND I GUESS IT
SOUNDS FINE…
- repetition of sound at the ends of words. (Rhyme occurring within a line
is called internal rhyme. Rhyme occurring at the end of a line is called
end rhyme)

Rhyme Scheme – the pattern of end rhyme in a poem. Lines that rhyme
are given the same letter.

Example of internal rhyme, end rhyme, and rhyme scheme:


I looked at the shell in the ocean
I looked at the bell in the sea,
I noticed the smell and the motion
Were very peculiar to me.”
SOUND DEVICE: ALLITERATION
- repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING of at least
two words in a line of poetry. Example of alliteration:

Examples of Alliteration
• “the frog frolicked frivolously on the forest floor.”
• “…Little skinny shoulder blades Sticking through your clothes…”
• “…struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet…”
SOUND DEVICE: ASSONANCE
- repetition of VOWEL SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or
END of at least two words in a line of poetry.

Examples of Assonance
• Repeating the “eh” sound in the words: “crescent,” “flesh,”
“extending,” “medicine” and “death”
SOUND DEVICE: CONSONANCE
- repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE
or END of at least two words in a line of poetry.

Examples of Consonance
Repeating the “sh” sound in the words: “shush,” “wish,”
“sharp,” “cushion” and “quash”
Irony
1.Thanks for the ticket officer, you just
made my day!
2.I can’t wait to read the seven hundred
page report.
Sarcasm

■ This makes use of words that mean the opposite of


what the speaker or writer wants to say especially in
order to insult someone.
■ To show irritation or to be funny.
Ex.
Nice Perfume, Must you marinate in it?
1. I cannot disagree with your
point.
2. The trip was not a total loss.
Ex. Most of the informal settlers
have been relocated outside
Metro Manila.
LET’S DO THIS!
Instructions: On a half sheet of paper, create your own example of each
of the following poetic devices

1. Personification:
________________________________________________
2. Simile:
_________________________________________________________
3. Metaphor
______________________________________________________
4. Alliteration:
___________________________________________________
5.Irony: ____________________________________________________
AGREEMENT:

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