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What are Poetic Devices?

Poetic Devices are literary devices used in texts that writers can use to help create rhythm, add  to a texts meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.

8 POETIC DECIVES

There are 8 poetic devices this website covers:

  • Alliteration

  • Onomatopoeia

  • Simile

  • Metaphor

  • Hyperbole

  • Personification

  • Apostrophe

  • Assonance

more info:

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Practice

Practice - Definitions & Matching 

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Practice - Children's Stories

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Matching Answer Key

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Outcomes

GCO’s:

7 – respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre

8 – use writing and other ways of representing to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imagination

 

SCO’s:

7.3 – respond critically to texts of increasing complexity

8.3 – make informed choices of language to create a range of interesting effects in imaginative writing and other ways of representing

questions?

Miss MacEachern
Pre-service Teacher 
Acadia University

Contact me at:

155384m@acadiau.ca

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