Basic Poetic Devices, Poetry Unit

British Literature. Mon, Aug 20th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

Themes: Poetry, WinsomeWiki'd

Tomorrow (Tuesday, August 21), we will begin a discussion on the poetry analysis paper. The final project for this unit will consist of a short (2 page) paper comparing and contrasting two poems, and a creative piece (a complete song, a set of haiku, a sonnet, two songs without music, three free-verse poems). We will discuss the assignment more thoroughly in class, but the entire project will be five pages long. A rough draft will be due Friday (essay outline and solid ideas for each poem), and the final product will be due on Monday. We will begin About a Boy at that time.

Here is the list of basic poetic devices from the board today. We will begin writing on our poetry soon, so please look over the list for any terms you do not already know.

• Simile- comparing two things using “like” or “as”
• Metaphor- comparing two things without using “like” or “as”
• Personification- a type of metaphor, in which a non-human thing is given human characteristics
• Analogy- an extended comparison
• Assonance- rhyming or repetition amongst vowel sounds
• Alliteration- rhyming or repetition amongst consonant sounds
• Onomatopoeia- words that sound like the sound being described
• Poetic Meter
• Iambic- unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
• Trochaic- stressed followed by unstressed
• Anapestic- two unstressed followed by one stressed
• Dactylic- stressed followed by two unstressed

[This post was WinsomeWiki’d on 5 Jul. 2009]

3 Responses to “Basic Poetic Devices, Poetry Unit”

1. Bagley says:

   August 20, 2007 at 8:57 pm

   This friday? the 24th… for teh 2 page assignment?

2. stacie says:

   August 20, 2007 at 10:15 pm

   Thanks for the heads up!
   I have already started “About a Boy” and I am really enjoy it.

3. JStallings says:

   August 21, 2007 at 5:57 am

   For the rough draft, yes. Bring it in Friday, then flesh it out over the weekend.