10 POETIC DEVICES
Th
FIRST FLIGHT
A Letter to God
Personification:
The house sat on the crest of the hill
The field promised a good harvest
Metaphor: New
coins
The big drops are ten cent pieces and the little ones are
fives A curtain of rain New silver coins.
Frozen pearls
Lencho was an ox of a man
Simile:
The field was white, as if covered with salt.
This seems like a total loss
Working like an animal in the fields
A plague of locusts would have left more than this.
Poem1. Dust of Snow
❖ I stanza – Inversion & Enjambment
❖ 2nd stanza – Enjambment
❖ Shook down on me – Assonance
❖ Crow, hemlock tree – Symbolism
❖ Has given my heart – Synecdoche
❖ Dust of snow - Metaphor
Fire and Ice
❖ Fire and ice – Antithesis
❖ I hold with those who favour fire – Assonance
❖ Some say – Anaphora
Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
❖ South African soil – Synecdoche
❖ Watching world – Transferred Epithet
❖ Newborn liberty – Personification
❖ Never, never, and never again – Repetition
❖ Roar – Onomatopoeia
, ❖ A chevron of Impala … South African flag – Imagery
❖ Chains – Symbolism
Antithesis:
It requires such depths of oppression to create such heights of character. Courage
was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Man‘s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
That transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding
attorney to become a criminal that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a
home that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk.
Simile:
In a country like South Africa Who
looked like I did.
Live like a monk
A Tiger in the Zoo
❖ Tiger, he – Personification
❖ Pads of velvet – Metaphor
Imagery:
Sliding through the grass… deer pass
He should be snarling …. Terrorising the village
Enjambment:
He stalks .... of his cage
Sliding through …. deer pass
He should be snarling ... jungle‘s edge, And
stares ... brilliant stars.
Assonance:
His vivid stripes
His brilliant eyes
Consonance:
Stalks his stripes
His white fangs, his claws
Quiet – Repetition
Quiet rage – Oxymoron
Brilliant – Repetition
Th
FIRST FLIGHT
A Letter to God
Personification:
The house sat on the crest of the hill
The field promised a good harvest
Metaphor: New
coins
The big drops are ten cent pieces and the little ones are
fives A curtain of rain New silver coins.
Frozen pearls
Lencho was an ox of a man
Simile:
The field was white, as if covered with salt.
This seems like a total loss
Working like an animal in the fields
A plague of locusts would have left more than this.
Poem1. Dust of Snow
❖ I stanza – Inversion & Enjambment
❖ 2nd stanza – Enjambment
❖ Shook down on me – Assonance
❖ Crow, hemlock tree – Symbolism
❖ Has given my heart – Synecdoche
❖ Dust of snow - Metaphor
Fire and Ice
❖ Fire and ice – Antithesis
❖ I hold with those who favour fire – Assonance
❖ Some say – Anaphora
Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
❖ South African soil – Synecdoche
❖ Watching world – Transferred Epithet
❖ Newborn liberty – Personification
❖ Never, never, and never again – Repetition
❖ Roar – Onomatopoeia
, ❖ A chevron of Impala … South African flag – Imagery
❖ Chains – Symbolism
Antithesis:
It requires such depths of oppression to create such heights of character. Courage
was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Man‘s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
That transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding
attorney to become a criminal that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a
home that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk.
Simile:
In a country like South Africa Who
looked like I did.
Live like a monk
A Tiger in the Zoo
❖ Tiger, he – Personification
❖ Pads of velvet – Metaphor
Imagery:
Sliding through the grass… deer pass
He should be snarling …. Terrorising the village
Enjambment:
He stalks .... of his cage
Sliding through …. deer pass
He should be snarling ... jungle‘s edge, And
stares ... brilliant stars.
Assonance:
His vivid stripes
His brilliant eyes
Consonance:
Stalks his stripes
His white fangs, his claws
Quiet – Repetition
Quiet rage – Oxymoron
Brilliant – Repetition
