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Poetic Devices

by Tyler Foster - Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary, Surrey BCs Feb 23, 2011

We need to use similes like a fish uses a bicycle
and metaphors are squirrels with nun chucks... useless
I totally use hyperboles a million times a day
and I learn them like BANG onomatipoeia
I use personification as often as dogs talk to cats
and my hand banned the grand bland alliteration
but theres no greater waste of time
than that annoying thing called rhyme
what a scheme
a teachers dream
to have a theme
that fits with your poetry unit

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