This document provides an overview of 10 poetic devices and forms: speaker, diction, imagery, allusion, simile, personification, metaphor, refrain, symbol, and stanza. It then discusses haiku, sonnet, concrete poetry, acrostic, free verse, ode, and parody as additional poetic forms. Examples are provided to illustrate some of the concepts.

2. Chapter 1
Poetic
devices
this chapter is about my poetic device vocab and
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3. 1. Speaker- Person who reads the poem
2. Diction- style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of word
3. Imagery- Explanation with a picture
4. Allusion- Explanation to bring something to mind without explicitly.
5. Simile- Figure of speech to compare things.
6. Personification- Attribution of human nature.
7. Metaphor- Figure of speech in Which a word or phrase is applied to a object.
8. Refrain- A repeated line or number of lines in a poem
9. Symbol- Something that stands for something else
10. Stanza- A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
11. Alliteration- The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of
adjacent or closely connected words.
12. Onomatopoeia- The use of such words for rhetorical effect
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4. 13. Enjambment- The continuation of a syntactic unit from one
line of verse into the next line without a pause. let the groove get
in.
14. Connotation- An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a
person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
15. Denotation- An Explosion
16. Euphemism- The expression so substituted.
17. Tone- an accent peculiar to a person, people, locality, etc., or
a characteristic mode of sounding words in speech.
18. Hyberbole- An extravagant statement or figure of speech not
intended to be taken literally poetics.
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6. Chapter 2
black out
peom
a poem were you cross out words in a newspaper
to make a poem

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black out poem

8. Chapter 3
Haiku
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three
lines of five, seven, and five.

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Justin Timberlake
he can do just everything
Justin Timberlake

10. Chapter 4
I am

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I am Justin Timberlakes biggest fan!
I wonder I could meet Justin
I hear his music
I see him online
I want to meet justin
I am his biggest fan
I pretend that I have meet justin
I feel soap
I touch watermelons
I worry about walker galls health
I cry if justin dies
I am a fan of justin
I understand that justin might hate me in real life
I say that just to crush my spirit
I dream of meeting him
I try to cry for my pet gerble
I hope Justin beiber dies
I am not a fan of justin Beiber

12. Chapter 5
sonnet
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of
formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having
ten syllables per line.

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Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake is a amazing artist.
you cannot deny that this is a fact
if you do deny that this is a fact
You are not a true fan of Justin duh.
If you are a fan of Justin Timberlake
Then you probably know some of his lyrics
Like some of his famous songs like Suit and Tie
I just can’t wait to get you on the floor
Thats from suit and tie Justin Timberlake
Or another good song from his album
Like his other famous one mirrors thats a good
Mirrors is about his grandpa that died

14. Chapter 6
Concrete
A poem that with its words it makes a photo or
something to represent the poem.

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16. Chapter 8
acrostic
an acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in
which the first letter, syllable or word of each line,
paragraph or other recurring feature in the text
spells out a word or a message.

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The
Endless
Dream

18. Chapter 8
free verse
Poetry that does not have a fixed rhyme scheme or
rhythm. Unstructured and open poem. Began in the
early 20th Century to break free of the formality and
rigidity of the poetry of the time.

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I will be going to a party
what should I wear
Oh all the choice I have
what’s that in the corner of the closet
Oh it’s a suit and tie
Just then what comes on the radio
Justin Timberlake I’ll be on my suit and tie
shit tied shit tied shit.

20. Chapter 9
ode
very formal poems written in iambic pentameter.
Traditional odes are written for a chorus (or at least,
the idea of a chorus), and are broken down into
three 10-line stanzas - one half of the chorus reads
the first set of lines, the other half reads the middle
set, and both together read the end, which ties
everything together.

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Ode to pie
It tastes good
Chocolate is the best
It is sugary.
Ode to the taste
It swirls in my mouth
It is good in my stomach.
It is sweet.
Ode to my mouth
It lets me eat pie
It chews it for me
I am grateful.
Ode to pie
It tastes good
Chocolate is the best
It is sugary.

22. Chapter 10
Parody
A parody is a humorous copy of an existing work. If
you write a parody of a poem, you will write a poem
that looks and sounds like the original, but is
humorous - either making fun of the original, or
making fun of something else.

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Parody of suit and tie Minecraft
I’ll be on my pick and ax, block mined, block mined (repeat)
Can I show you a wheat seed, A wheat seed, a wheat seed?
Little steve cause I’ll be on my pick and ax, block mined block,
I’ll be on my pick and ax, block mined, block
Let me show you a wheat seed, let me show you a wheat seed?
You ready Steve.
I can’t wait bring you down in the mineshaft baby,
have minen so much iron