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Analyzing Poetic Devices

The document provides definitions and analysis guidelines for various poetic devices including metaphor, imagery, simile, personification, symbol, tone, mood, hyperbole, irony, onomatopoeia, alliteration and theme. For each device, it explains what to look for and how to analyze the significance and importance to the overall meaning or theme of the poem.

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Analyzing Poetic Devices

The document provides definitions and analysis guidelines for various poetic devices including metaphor, imagery, simile, personification, symbol, tone, mood, hyperbole, irony, onomatopoeia, alliteration and theme. For each device, it explains what to look for and how to analyze the significance and importance to the overall meaning or theme of the poem.

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Analyzing Poetic Devices

Device About Analysis


Metaphor Comparing 2 unlike things Explain how 2 things are alike and the significance
of the comparison to the theme
Extended metaphor Comparing 2 unlike things Explain how 2 things are alike and the significance
of the comparison to the theme.
Must also show how the metaphor is developed in
the poem.
Imagery Appeals to the 5 senses Identify the words/phrases that create the images
in our mind. What is the importance of the image to
the theme?
Simile Comparing 2 unlike things Explain how 2 things are alike and the significance
using “like” or “as” (be of the comparison to the theme
careful that it is a
comparison between 2
unlike things
Personification Gives an inanimate Identify the object and the words used to give it
object/idea human human traits. What is the importance of
qualities humanizing the object/idea?
Symbol A concrete noun Symbols do not compare 2 unlike objects. Symbols
represents an idea or represent an idea and the analysis needs to show
abstract noun the development between the symbol and what it
represents. That means you need to show what
happens to the symbol and what that means for the
abstract noun.
Tone The author’s attitude Select specific words and phrases that create the
toward the subject of the tone. What are the connotations of the words?
poem
Mood The feeling you get from Select specific words and phrases that create the
reading the poem mood. What are the connotations of the words?
Hyperbole An exaggeration Identify, explain and show the significance of the
hyperbole. What does it mean to the subject of the
poem?
Irony Something unexpected, Explain what is ironic and the impact of the irony on
usually a twist the theme of the poem.
Onomatopoeia Words that represent Identify the words and explain their significance to
sound the reading of the poem. What do they add? What
is the poet stressing?
Alliteration Words that begin with the This is all about the sound of words. Identify the
same consonant sound words that create the alliteration. Are they soft?
Hard? What is the effect of the sounds of the
words?
theme The meaning or message In one sentence, state what message the poet
of the poem wants us to understand about the topic. If you have
done the rest of the analysis well, the theme should
not need a lot of explanation.

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