Poetic Devices

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Poetic Devices

• Personification
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Irony

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Personification

• Giving non-human things human characteristics or
  qualities
• Ex The sun broke through the window, laughing
  at me as I woke up.

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Alliteration

• At least two words in a row that begin with the
  same sound
• Ex Come see the softer side of Sears

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Hyperbole

• an exaggeration
• sometimes uses as twice
• Ex Shes as brave as a lion

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Irony

• When you expect or say one thing will happen, but
  the opposite happens
• You win a new car just days after buying a new
  one.

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My love is warmer than the warmest sunshine,
softer than a sigh, its deeper than the deepest
ocean, wider than the sky

• Hyperbole

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My tongue gets tied when I try to speak.
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My tongue gets tied when I try to speak.

• Alliteration

9
Got to be good looking cause hes so hard to see

• Irony

10
You cant hide your lying eyes

• Personification

11
While my guitar gently weeps

• Personification

12
Badder than a whole King Kong, Meaner than a
Junkyard dog

• Hyperbole

13
8 days a week is not enough to show I care.

• Hyperbole

14
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• Alliteration

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That was then this is now
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That was then this is now

• Alliteration

18
Loneliness took me for a ride

• Personification

19
Time keeps on slipping into the future

• Personification

20
You lived your life like a candle in the wind
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You lived your life like a candle in the wind

• Alliteration
• Simile

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Its like meeting the man of your dreams, then
meetings his beautiful wife

• Irony