The document provides definitions and examples of different poetic devices including simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, consonance, line break, onomatopoeia, repetition, and rhyme. Key poetic devices are defined as comparisons using "like" or "as" (simile), comparisons stating one thing is another (metaphor), giving human qualities to non-human things (personification), words clustered with the same first sound (alliteration), repeating consonant sounds anywhere in words (consonance), where a line ends to add attention or emotion (line break), words that sound like the noise they describe (onomatopoeia), using the same words over and over (repetition), and two

1. Intro to Poetry
Part A

2. What is poetry?
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3. What is poetry?
• “The best words in the best order.” Samuel Taylor
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4. What is poetry?
• “The best words in the best order.” Samuel Taylor
• “The record of the best and happiest moments of the best and
happiest minds.” Percy Bysshe Shelley
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5. What is poetry?
• “The best words in the best order.” Samuel Taylor
• “The record of the best and happiest moments of the best and
happiest minds.” Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a
love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort
to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion
has found its thought and the thought has found the words.”
Robert Frost
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6. What is poetry?
• “The best words in the best order.” Samuel Taylor
• “The record of the best and happiest moments of the best and
happiest minds.” Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a
love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort
to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion
has found its thought and the thought has found the words.”
Robert Frost
• “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”
William Wordsworth
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7. What is poetry?
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R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young

8. What is poetry?
• Good poetry says something meaningful in just a few words.
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9. What is poetry?
• Good poetry says something meaningful in just a few words.
• Poetry is language from the heart, the language used to see,
hear, feel, smell, and taste the world.
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R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young

10. What is poetry?
• Good poetry says something meaningful in just a few words.
• Poetry is language from the heart, the language used to see,
hear, feel, smell, and taste the world.
• The poet wants to share his or her world.
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11. Why do we study poetry?
R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young

12. Why do we study poetry?
• Poetry is language from the heart, the language used to see,
hear, feel, smell, and taste the world.
R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young

13. Why do we study poetry?
• Poetry is language from the heart, the language used to see,
hear, feel, smell, and taste the world.
• Poetry allows us to experiment with words using different
writing tools.
R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young

14. Why do we study poetry?
• Poetry is language from the heart, the language used to see,
hear, feel, smell, and taste the world.
• Poetry allows us to experiment with words using different
writing tools.
• Poetry gives us an outlet for expressing our own interpretations
of the world and helps us discover the power and importance of
our own words.
R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young

15. Why do we study poetry?
• Poetry is language from the heart, the language used to see,
hear, feel, smell, and taste the world.
• Poetry allows us to experiment with words using different
writing tools.
• Poetry gives us an outlet for expressing our own interpretations
of the world and helps us discover the power and importance of
our own words.
• By studying poetry, we are able to better understand other
people, their perspectives, and the world.
R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young

16. Intro to Poetry
Part B

17. Simile
a comparison using “like” or “as”
A bluebird is like a
piece of summer sky.
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18. Metaphor
A bluebird is a piece of summer sky.
“Bluebird”
a A piece of summer sky
comparison With a bit of sunrise on his breast
that says Landed in the birdbath,
one thing is Scattering diamonds
Which glistened in the air
something And glittered the rainbow of colors
else In the garden below.
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19. Personification
“The Ballerina”
makes an There once was a hippo named Rose
object seem Who thought she had delicate toes
human But on stage, the old frau
Would not take a bow
For her tutu was tight, I suppose.
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20. Alliteration
a group of words clustered
together that have the
same first sound
feathery fluff floats
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21. Consonance
repeating consonant sounds
anywhere in words
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

22. Line Break
where a line
“My Shadow”
ends; used to
slow down the Always
reader to add Attached to me,
attention, This black transparency.
suspense, or I can’t escape the shape of my
Shadow.
other emotion
words
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23. Onomatopoeia
“The Ears of an Elephant”
words that
sound like If you had the ears of an elephant,
the noise You might hear the bugs that crunch
On leaves that whisper whooshing words
they make As they’re gobbled up for lunch.
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24. Repetition
Using the same
words over and over
I fell down, down, down the stairs.
The balloon went up, up, up, up.
My knees ached, “Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!”

25. Rhyme
“The Sweet Tooth Candy Shop”
Taffy, suckers, and lollipops,
Lemon, lime, and orange gumdrops,
two or more At the Sweet Tooth Candy Shop,
It’s the sweetest place to stop!
words that
end in the Peppermint sticks and chocolate bars,
Drive right up here in your car
same vowel To the Sweet Tooth Candy Shop,
and It’s the sweetest place to stop!
consonant
Is candy what you like to eat?
sounds Then you will find all sorts of sweets
At the Sweet Tooth Candy Shop,
It’s the sweetest place to stop!
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