1.  POETRY  PRACTICE EXERCISES

2. Instructions  Read, watch or hear the different excerpts of poetry in this activity. Later identify what poetic device is being used in each of the exercises. Try your best and remember… “practice makes perfect”.

3. Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.

4. a)MetaphorMetaphor b)HyperboleHyperbole c)SimileSimile d)PersonificationPersonification O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Luve's like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune. -Robert Burns

5. I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? - Emily Dickinson a)HyperboleHyperbole b)MetaphorMetaphor c)SimileSimile d)RepetitionRepetition

6. a) Metaphor Metaphor b) Hyperbole Hyperbole c) Simile Simile d) Personification Personification "The sea had climbed the mountain peaks, And shouted to the stars To come to play: and down they came Splashing in happy wars. -Gilbert Keith Chesterson, A Certain Evening

7. a) Metaphor Metaphor b) Hyperbole Hyperbole c) Simile Simile d) Personification Personification I’m a riddle in nine syllables An elephant a ponderous house A melon strolling on two tendrils -Sylvia Plath

8. An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven -Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) a)MetaphorMetaphor b)HyperboleHyperbole c)SimileSimile d)PersonificationPersonification

9. I almost died of astonishment million years went by Walking to run forever barefooted - E.R. a) Metaphor Metaphor b) Hyperbole Hyperbole c) Simile Simile d) Personification Personification

10. a) Metaphor Metaphor b) Hyperbole Hyperbole c) Simile Simile d) Personification Personification  “Juliet is the sun” -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

11. I'd love to take a poem to lunch or treat it to a wholesome brunch of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch. -Take a Poem to Lunch, by Denise Rodgers a) Metaphor Metaphor b) Hyperbole Hyperbole c) Simile Simile d) Personification Personification

12. a)HyperboleHyperbole b)MetaphorMetaphor c)SimileSimile d)RepetitionRepetition

14. Incorrect

15. Correct!