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    This document provides a step-by-step guide to identifying literary devices in poetry that help convey meaning. It lists various devices like rhyme, rhythm, repetition, metaphor, and irony. It instructs the reader to analyze a poem looking for these devices, note examples on a lyric sheet, and consider how the devices contribute to the poem's overall meaning.

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    This document provides a step-by-step guide to identifying literary devices in poetry that help convey meaning. It lists various devices like rhyme, rhythm, repetition, metaphor, and irony. It instructs the reader to analyze a poem looking for these devices, note examples on a lyric sheet, and consider how the devices contribute to the poem's overall meaning.

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    This document provides a step-by-step guide to identifying literary devices in poetry that help convey meaning. It lists various devices like rhyme, rhythm, repetition, metaphor, and irony. It instructs the reader to analyze a poem looking for these devices, note examples on a lyric sheet, and consider how the devices contribute to the poem's overall meaning.

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    What the Heck Does this Mean?

    How to find the Literary Devices that create that thing that speaks to you (meaning)
    in poetry.

    Step 1: General Style Devices


    Device:

    Example:

    Does it RHYME?

    Does it NOT rhyme?


    We call this FREE VERSE
    (Rhymes need not apply.)

    Does it come with


    music?
    We call this LYRICAL
    POETRY
    (Yeah. Theres a name for
    that.)

    Step 2: Does my poem have this going on?


    Things to look for in poetry. Not every poem will have everything! Identify what devices YOUR
    poem has so you can start to talk about why the write put them in there for you to find in the
    first place.
    Level 1 - Let the Beat Drop (Sound Devices in Poetry)
    Rhythm: The beat (Clap it out, show where the claps land on your lyric sheet)

    Alliteration: The beat with letters - think Alphabet Aerobics:


    Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing?
    Analytically, I assault, animate things
    Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat
    Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding
    Casually create catastrophes, casualties
    Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing
    -Blackalicious
    Circle the first letters of these words in a row on your lyric sheet.

    Onomatopoeia: Makes the sound when you say it like SNAP, CRACKLE, POP! Highlight these
    words on your lyric sheet.
    Level 2 I think Ive heard this before (The devices you already know about)
    Repetition: is there a word or line repeated more than once in your poem? Over and over
    again? Write it here, highlight it on your lyric sheet.

    Juxtaposition: is anything in your poem being compared or contrasted with something else?
    What is it? Write it here, circle and note J on your lyric sheet.

    Level 3 Hey! That reminds me of that one time (The devices you already
    know about, but never think to look for. Also new names to remember! Build
    that vocabulary muscle!)
    Hyperbole: HUGE exaggeration! Write it here, then underline with two lines on your lyric sheet.

    Understatement: For the minimalists, and popular with sarcastic folks the world over the
    opposite of hyperbole. Write it here, then underline with a squiggly line on your lyric sheet.

    Imagery: Makes a picture in your head (an image). Write down the line, and draw the picture it
    creates:

    Oxymoron: Two contradictory words that still somehow make sense Think JUMBO SHRIMP
    (whaaat!). Write it!

    Simile: Finding a similarity between two different things, makes new meaning Look for LIKE or
    AS. Write it!

    Level 4 Powerful you have become (These are the tough ones, and the
    hardest to find and make sense of like Yoda)
    Metaphor: To understand, you must first learn the difference between literal and figurative
    comparison.
    Literal comparison this thing is ACTUALLY like this other thing.
    Ex. Watching paint dry is ACTUALLY as boring as watching paint dry. Its very boring. Actually.
    (Literally.)
    Figurative comparison this thing is FIGURATIVELY like this other thing.
    Ex. Ive been driving in Saskatchewan for eternity. Youre comparing these things to explain how
    long (and boring and possibly awful) this is, but that is not the ACTUAL activity that is happening.
    (If you say this is LITERALLY that boring, you are lying. What you actually mean is that this is
    FIGURATIVELY that boring.)
    A metaphor shows or expresses something about a person, place, thing, or idea (nouns). Its
    used to show an IDEA rather than make a LITERAL comparison.
    Does your poem use metaphors? Write the line/ stanza below, and then EXPLAIN what is being
    compared in this metaphor, and what IDEA this comparison is showing the reader. (Do this for
    EACH metaphor you find in your poem).

    Personification: Making things that are NOT alive sound like they are alive and thinking/ feeling
    beings.
    Is this used in your poem? What is being personified? What is it showing the reader?

    Irony: An unexpected twist. Sarcasm is the most common type of irony, you are twisting words
    to have an unexpected meaning.

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