A LITANY OF POETIC DEVICES - READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit a poem of 15-20 lines, each line using a different poetic device from the list below (no repeating a device). At the end of your poem, identify the devices used by line number. Here is a silly EXAMPLE to demonstrate (it’s only 4 lines long – but I want a much better 15-20 liner from you):
[ The moon is like a ball of cheese
A big big fabulous ball of cheese
It smiles and winks at me from above
One two three four five and pouf!
Lines 1.simile 2.pleonasm 3.personification 4.onomatopoeia ]
IMPORTANT: contest participants agree to have their entry published in my Anthology of Poetry / Tips for Budding Poets. By the way, I am reserving the announcement of the winning book title suggestion until the launch of the book… aiming for mid-October!
THANKS AGAIN for all contributors, including everyone entering this contest.
FOR MORE INFO about the anthology, please refer to my 2 completed contests: TIPS FOR MODERN POETRY TO BUDDING POETS OF ALL AGES judged on July 3; and, READS LIKE MUSIC judged August 4, 2018.
LIST OF POETIC DEVICES OPTIONS:
Alliteration; Allusion; Ambiguity; Antithesis; Aphorism; Apposition; Archaism; Assonance; Consonance; Dissonance; Ellipsis; Enjambment; Euphony; Homographs; Homonyms; Homophones; Hyperbaton; Innuendo; Internal Rhyme; Inversion; Litote; Metaphor; Metonymy; Neologism; Onomatopoeia; Oxymoron; Paradox; Parallelism; Parody; Personification; Pleonasm; Pun; Rhetorical question; Sensory detail imagery; Simile; Synecdoche; Superlative; Synecdoche; Tautology; Truism
Preparing Your Entry: Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts.
English Language: Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.