Poetic devices What’s that called?
Name the device in the following example: “[the storm] sighs clouds” From “uncoiling” by pat mora personification
Name the device in the following example: “Lazy days, daisies lay” From “summer” by walter dean myers assonance
Name the device in the following example: “Life is a broken-winged bird” From “dreams” by Langston hughes metaphor
Name the device in the following example: “sweat is what you got days” From “summer” by walter dean myers consonance
Name two devices in the following example: …the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way They stretched in never-ending line From “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William wordsworth end rhyme, hyperbole
Name the device in the following example: what happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? From “dream deferred” by Langston hughes simile
Name the device in the following example: Ball goes in (thwack) to mitt From “analysis of baseball” by may swenson onomatopoeia
Name the poem type (fixed/free) in the following example: After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship. FREE FORM POEM
NAME THE 2 DEVICEs IN THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE: On a starry winter night in Portugal Where the ocean kissed the southern shore Personification, imagery
What is a poem that talks about feelings and emotions called? Lyric poem
What is a poem that tells a story called? Narrative poem
Name the device in the following example: Hopefully, hannah’s heat is on. alliteration
Identify the rhyme scheme in the following lines: The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. As long as it takes to pass A ship keeps raising its hull; The wetter ground like glass Reflects a standing gull. ABABCDCD
IS THIS A LINE OF IAMBIC PENTAMETER? But soft what light through yonder window breaks? Yes Hello, my friend, what are you doing here? Yes But why do you join me here in class? No