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Poetic
Devices Examples from Sabino High School Poets Fall 2003
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Personal Mask |
Personal Mask |
The following poetic devices can be used in both poetry and prose compositions. The examples given are from personal mask poems composed by Ms. Roderick's ceramics students at Sabino High School (2002-2003). Read through the terms and examples. Then answer the question at the end of this page. |
| Term | Meaning | Example |
| alliteration | repetition of the initial consonant sounds | terrible truths and lullaby lies |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sound | mystery disguised within |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowel sounds | gloomy woman |
| imagery |
language that evokes sensory images
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drip of ruby teardrops (aural/sound) |
internal rhyme |
rhyming that occurs within the
line (rather than at the end) |
piece of me emerges |
| metaphor | comparison of unlike things (made without using like or as) |
I am the "Lone Star" |
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Personal Mask by Matt Richards
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| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents | Boo! Who? |
| personification | giving human qualities or characteristics to animals or objects |
tears of amber fall from my soul |
| rhyme | a pattern of words that contains similar sounds
at the end of the line |
life for me
is wild and free |
| rhyme scheme | a repeated pattern of rhymed words at the end of the line |
lusty eyes (A) passionate cries (A) rich blood, (B) bitter sweat (C) she/he loves (D) and dies (A) |
Personal Mask by Sandra Hallquist |
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| simile | a comparison using like or as | notes dance across the page like stars twinkle in the night sky |
| stanza | a group of poetic lines (also called a verse) | Like glistening sun and moon like day and gloomy night like pure earth and gentle clouds transformation - life and death |
| symbol | an object or action that means more than its literal meaning |
always open like a rosebud
about to bloom (a young girl) |
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Which of the above poetic devices can you identify in the following published poems? "Mask" by Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask" by Carl Sandburg "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar "Hiding in the Mask" by Ellen Bauer Additional Resource: |
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Personal Mask by Dottie Miles |
Personal Mask by Randi Grossman |
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