poems. please help!?

Question

i need to read poems and find lines that illustrate each of the poetic devices listed below. but i have no clue of where to find any so could anybody post website/s that have examples of them and let me know which type their using.


iambic pentameter
anapest
trochee
dactyl
rhyming couplet
assonance
consonance
alliteration
internal rhyme
slant rhyme
onomatopoeia
imagery
simile
metaphor
personification
symbolism (and what does it symbolize?)
allusion (what does it allude to?)

oh i would love to have a class with this book but unfortunatly it's an online class with no books.

Answer 1

here are websites that have emaples and have the meaning.....when youre on the websites, be sure to look at the whole page, not just the top, so that u could see everything! =)

iambic pentameter: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mwh95001/iambic.html

antapest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapest

trochee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochee

dactyl:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyl_%28poetry%29

rhming couplet:
http://www.geocities.com/hermies_members/comps/poetry/couplet.html

assonance:
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkmDooaVF1GUAUjFXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2M2xxb2s0BGNvbG8DdwRsA1dTMQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDc3IEdnRpZANERlI1Xzkx/SIG=123pmu414/EXP=1168569192/**http%3a//users.ipfw.edu/jehle/poesia/asonanci.htm

consonance:
http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/53-consonance.htm

aliteration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration

internal rhyme:
http://www.answers.com/topic/internal-rhyme

slant rhyme:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slant_rhyme

onomatopoeia:
http://www.sd35.bc.ca/lm/archive/div8sampleonomatop.htm

imagery:
http://www.bloomington.in.us/~dory/creative/class5.html

silime:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile

mataphor:
http://silviahartmann.com/metaphor-poem.php

personification:
http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/create/personpoem.cfm

symbolism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism
(everything included for symbolism)

allusion:
http://www.textetc.com/aspects/a-allusion.html

hoped this helped =)

Answer 2

Though you'd probably be happy to have someone just provide all the answers, that won't help you learn this (or at least, learn enough to pass an exam). So what you really need is some kind of help understanding the terms and some help finding poems. Once you understand a term, e.g., simile, it'll be easier to recognize an example in a poem.

Here are some sites which might help you with the terms, esp. the first several, which have to do with meter (the patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line):

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xmeter.html
http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/meter.html
http://www.studystack.com/menu-593

Here's a site which provides links to poems.

Don't forget the obvious, though: you probably have a textbook that gives you most of the answers -- go to the index and look up the first term, for example, and see what you get.

This isn't so hard. Think of it as song lyrics, and the meter as the rhythm. Many of the other terms refer to things you already know about. E.g., we're using personification when we talk about Old Man Winter -- taking something abstract, like a season, and speaking about it as if it were a person.

You can do this. Happy hunting.

Answer 3

Shakespeare would be a great start for iambic pentameter, because all of his sonnets use it (It's part of the required format), and he usually uses other poetic devices in his sonnets. My personal favorites are 143, 18 and 33.

Answer 4

poetry.com will give you poems. You need to look up the terms on your own.

Here are two to get you started: simile always uses "like" or "as." Metaphor is more direct.

Example of simile: Her eyes shone like the fires of a thousand years.
Example of metaphor: Her hair was satin.

Answer 5

Here is your first example. You can look up the rest on your own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter

I got the link above by simply googling "exampes of iambic pentameter".

Answer 6

http://learning.mgccc.cc.ms.us/writing/poetry/poetry.html

This really lays everything out for you. Good luck.