Introduction to Poetry
A Review of Poetic Devices
ESSENTIAL QUESTION and PURPOSE
What are poetic devices, and how do poets use them to enhance their work?
- The next few texts we will be reading in Unit 3 are poems. This lesson will introduce you to a variety of poetic elements that we will focus on while we are reading these poems. Please watch each presentation and take the quiz.
PROCESS
- Watch the Language of Poetry Presentation
- Please take notes as you follow along
- Take the Socrative Quiz
- Have some fun with Poetic language by watching the Poetic Devices in Popular Music Presentation
- Find your own examples!
Please click on Poetic Devices to view the presentation!
Use this worksheet to take notes.
Form
- Traditional
- Organic
Sound Devices
- Rhyme
- Repetition
- Alliteration
- Assonance
- Consonance
Figurative Language
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Hyperbole
- Click the link above