POETIC DEVICES

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

• Peter piper picked a peck of pickled

peppers.

• Sheep should sleep in a shed.

• Repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby
words.
• Having stressed syllables with the same sound or
sound group repeating at the beginning of two or
more words.
• Usually applied to consonants
• Serve as a mnemonic device
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Love’s Labour’s Lost

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Sense and Sensibility

Coca-cola Mickey mouse
Donald Duck
Peter Pan
Krispy Kreme
Gone Girl
There was a fleet of sleeping geese.

I made my way to the lake.

Mystery disguised within.

 Assonance
• Repetition of identical or similar vowels-
especially in stressed syllables-in a sequence
of nearby words.
Thou still unravished bride of
quietness,
Thou foster child of silence and slow
time
 Consonance
• Repetition of a sequence of two or more
consonants, but with a change in the
intervening vowel.
• Eg: live-love, pitter-patter, rider-reader,hearer-
horror
Like a diamond in the sky!!!
 Similie

A comparison between two distinctly

different things is explicitly indicated
by the word like or as.
• My love is like a red, red rose
• I wandered lonely as a cloud
A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating

that one is the other or does the action of the other.

Example: He’s a zero.