This document discusses poetic devices and provides examples of their use in songs. It defines poetic devices as methods of arranging words to make expressions appealing to readers. Some devices discussed include metaphor, simile, imagery, repetition, onomatopoeia, personification, and alliteration. Examples are given of specific songs that utilize these devices, such as "Price Tag" using onomatopoeia and "California Gurls" using alliteration. The document aims to explain how poetic devices can enhance meaning and help convey the main ideas in songs.

1. Poetic DevicesBy: Piyush Sharma 7D

2. What are Poetic Devices?
Poetic devices are plans or methods of arrangements of words which can assist
the writer in developing expressions that are appealing to his/her readers.

3. Types of Poetic Devices
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Imagery
• Rhythm
• Symbol
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Irony
and more...

4. We will go through the different
types...

5. Song #1 Price Tag
By Jessie J
This song uses the poetic
device "Onomatopoeia."
Onomatopoeia means a word
that imitates a sound or is a
sound written as it would be
heard. The importance of
Onomatopoeia in this song
"Price Tag" is attached with the
meaning of the song, as this
device fits perfectly with it. The
song emphasizes the saying
that "Money can't buy
happiness."
The sounds "Cha-Ching (as a cash register
pops open) and Bling Ba-Bling refer to the
sounds related to money. It states in the song "It
ain't about the Cha-Ching", referring to "Money
can't buy happiness." Onomatopoeia
strengthens the main idea of the song for the
listener. The main idea is to find happiness
without money.

6. Song #2 California
Gurls By Katy Perry
This song uses the device
"Alliteration." Alliteration means
words beginning with the same
consonant sound. Alliteration helps
explain the song and its main idea
better by using words (commonly
adjectives). In the song, Katy Perry
is talking about California and
explaining how it is like there. She
used Alliteration in the song, so she
can say many adjectives together
with writing more, and so that it
helps imagine these attributes of
the place.
The song talks about California, a place
where everything is just as you've
imagined, and it is the perfect place. The
song uses the word “you” which
represents those who’re desperately lost
and looking for happiness and fulfillment
in their lives.

7. Song #3 Courage By
The Tragically Hip
This song uses the device
"Personification." Personification
means when an inanimate object or
something abstract is given a human
quality. The importance of
Personification in this song is to help
visualize what that feeling would be as
it is described in a quality that we have
most likely had or felt. "Courage, it
didn't come, it doesn't matter."In this
song, they talk about that courage
doesn't come in you in life sometimes,
but you still have to fight without it.
The main idea is to fight obstacles in life
without courage sometimes, because
sometimes you don't have it, and then its
useless to you. Courage is inanimate, and
they gave it the human quality to come
and go.

8. Song #4: Moves Like
Jagger By Maroon 5
This song uses the device
"Repetition." Repetition is when you
repeat something said or written
already. The Moves Like Jagger
song tells us about a man who
sincerely loves a woman. Like the
song, his love is sort of unique. He
just wants to give without expecting
to take. He don't want to control
her. He will try to give and satisfies
whatever she wants. Even if she
wants 'the moves like Jagger,' he
will show her that he 'got the moves
like Jagger.' It is likely to mean that
he will adapt to her.
Repetition is also used in the song to
make it catchy for the listener or to prove
a point. The main idea of the song is that
"Adapt to your loved ones to keep them
happy."

9. Song #5 Some Where Over
The Rainbow By Israel
Kamakawiow
The poetic device used in this song is Imagery. Imagery is the language in a poem
or song (any writing) that appeals to the senses to help you imagine. The
importance of Imagery in this song is that it helps us imagine a world where
everything is okay and perfect. Where there is no fighting and there is only love.
"Where Blue Birds Fly" has adjectives in it, which help the imagery. In the song, the
text helps you use your visual senses which helps you imagine it. The main idea is
that we imagine a world where there is peace and no fighting. We need to stop
imagining it and make it happen.

10. Song #6 Red By Taylor Swift
The poetic device used in this song is
"Simile." A Simile is a comparison of two
things normally quite different, using
"like" or "as." The Similes in this song
were used because there is a
comparison of when she was with her
loved one and when she wasn't. She
uses life examples foe similes (autumn
colours lose it all). Similes help this song
a lot as she uses life examples to adapt
to the listeners emotions.
The main idea is to be with your loved
ones while you can, or you will regret it
after.

11. Song #7 Let Her Go By
Passenger
The poetic device used in this song is
metaphor. Metaphor means one kind of
object or idea is given the qualities of
another. Metaphors are important to the
song as they because this song is about
losing love and how you miss them
afterwards. He gives the qualities of when
he was with her, and to one he missed her.
"Only miss home when you hit the road" he
uses a metaphor, in this case comparing
the road and his home, or this case fighting
and comfort in the relationship.
"Only miss the sun when it starts to
snow." The main idea is that you
feel the importance of others in your
life after losing them. Then you miss
them.

12. Rhyme
Song #8 Fireflies By Owl
City
The poetic device used in this song is Rhyme.
Words that have different beginning sounds
but whose endings sound alike, including the
final vowel sound and everything following it,
are said to rhyme. In Owl City, there are many
rhymes, hence considered a rhyme scheme.
The rhyme scheme in Owl City is
AABCCDCEEFFGGHIII. Each letter
represents a type of rhyme in the song.
Rhyme is important to the song as it makes it
more melodious and catchy and easy to
remember for the listener.
At the heart of this song there
seems to be a eager or a desire to
escape back to childhood
innocence which main idea. "If
planet earth would move slowly."
This means that if you could go
back to your childhood or keep
time stopped there it would be the
only thing you ever wanted. The
main idea is that childhood is very
precious.

13. Poetic Devices can help poetry and
take it to a new level. Hope you learned
the importance and the uses of these
poetic devices.
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