In your literature book, find the definitions for the following poetic devices.
Then, find an examples of each of these devices.

1. Metaphor - A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes the other

examples:

* Love is a door we shall open together
* The moon is a bucket of suds
* The river was the upper twist of a question mark



2. Simile - A comparison between two unlike things using like , as, resembles or than.


examples:

* The stars are like glitter on black construction paper
* The moonlight was pale as milk
* Good-bye is like a yellow ribbon fluttering in the wing




3. Personification - A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.


examples:

* The stars speak deep thoughts
* Death, the gray mocker, comes and whispers to you
* The whistle of a boat cries unendingly, like some lost child





4. Alliteration - The repetition of the same, or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together


examples:

* Stars make sixes and sevens
* Poplars pick Japanese prints
* Every singing silver has a sister





5. Repetition - The repetition of words or phrases


example:

The stars tell nothing -- and everything
The stars look scattered
Stars are so far away, they never speak when spoken to




6. Rhyme - The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem


example:

In the old deep sing-song of the sea
In the old going-on of that sing-song
In that old mama-mama-mama going-on
Of that nightlong daylong sleepsong



7. Onomatopoeia- The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning


examples:

* fizz
* zoom
* pow




8. Rhetorical Question- A philosophical question, one to which there is no definite answer


examples:

* Why can’t we know what the stars know?
* Why did the children pour molasses on the the cat,
when the one thing we told them
they must not do was pour molasses on the cat?
* When water turns ice does it remember one time it was water?