Poetic Techniques

ALLITERATION
CONTRAST
ENJAMBMENT
HYPERBOLE
IMAGERY
JUXTAPOSITION
METAPHOR
PERSON
PERSONIFICATION
PRONOUN
RHYME
RHYTHM
SIMILE
STANZA
TONE

Find the appropriate poetic techniques that are listed below. Once you had done that, find an example of four of these techniques in the poems we had already studied in class.

Try to find all 15 words on this board.

C N P D X B W W K Y P D A S O Q K N G P
X W W F H E N V J S B M C F X M U R F Q
A P O W L R W O A C K Q R L M Z J R H M
P X V N N X J M L T L Q Z C K J L M D I
U E F G O N U A S C T W K X P W B D V A
F B T O L I X H S R H Y T H M Q U Y D H
A B C E N O T G M Y O J B K Y F R D C T
U B M S B B A A R T V H O U C E T L N B
J O V A G B P L C F X E P Y G O N T Q X
O O D R O C O L O I D A A A N Y E V K Z
O P Q C T H S I N W F A M F T Z M D T G
V H X W H V I T T A M I I Z T E B E O K
L S U G Z I T E R D L R N K X M M L G V
R R C O P K I R A Y V V H O X Y A O F B
J K P R H I O A S E L I M I S H J B Q S
T C W W V F N T T R F X F T O R N R J A
U V F X Q P T I L V D F A W L O E E F I
C R B M D W Z O M S E N U O N O R P G G
R G U Z C K I N Z C Z Y R R A R U Y U M
I R D B E I X U Z A J Y C E X U W H O V
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Answer Key for Poetic Techniques

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Word X Y Direction
ALLITERATION  88s
CONTRAST  99s
ENJAMBMENT  1717n
HYPERBOLE  1818n
IMAGERY  1212ne
JUXTAPOSITION  77s
METAPHOR  1713nw
PERSON  1818nw
PERSONIFICATION  1111nw
PRONOUN  1818w
RHYME  1616n
RHYTHM  106e
SIMILE  1515w
STANZA  1515sw
TONE  77w