Poetic Techniques

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• Alliteration: Alliteration is when you use words that have the same sound at the beginning, like "Stellar students synthesize sweet sentences."
• Effect:Alliteration focuses readers' attention on a particular section of text. Alliterative sounds create rhythm and mood and can have particular connotations. For example, repetition of the "s" sound often suggests a snake-like quality, implying slyness and danger.
• Allusion: An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly: an indirect passing reference
• Effect: Allusion connects the content of a text with the larger world. Allusion calls to mind the ideas and emotions associated with a well-known event or published work. Those ideas and emotions then contribute to what the author conveys.

Slide 2

• Repetition:
• Rhyme: Have or end with a sound that corresponds to another
• Rhythm: Any regular recurring motion

Slide 3

• Euphemism: A nicer way of saying something difficult or unpleasant. Her clothes has seen better days
• Exaggeration: Describing something as more extreme than it really is. The presents were piled up the ceiling
• Genre: Categories used to identify the similarities and differences of texts. EG. Horror, romance, mystery, science-fiction

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• Hyperbole: An exaggerated statement
• Metaphor: Description of an object or action in a way that isn't literally true
• Onomatopoeia: The naming of a thing or action by vocal imitation
• Personification: Giving an inanimate thing human qualities
• Assonance: repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants

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• Simile: comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
• Sensory Imagery: Sensory imagery is any description that involves one or more of the five senses -- touch, sight, taste, smell and sound.
• Symbolism: The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
• Sibilance: The repetition of the 's' sound in words close together. Salty and Sweet