1. Poetic devices
What’s that called?

2. Name the device in the following example:
“[the storm] sighs clouds”
From “uncoiling” by pat mora
personification

3. Name the device in the following example:
“Lazy days, daisies lay”
From “summer” by walter dean myers
assonance

4. Name the device in the following example:
“Life is a broken-winged bird”
From “dreams” by Langston hughes
metaphor

5. Name the device in the following example:
“sweat is what you got days”
From “summer” by walter dean myers
consonance

6. 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

7. 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

8. Name the device in the following example:
Ball goes in
(thwack) to mitt
From “analysis of baseball” by may swenson
onomatopoeia

9. 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

10. NAME THE 2 DEVICEs IN THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE:
On a starry winter night in Portugal Where the ocean kissed the southern shore
Personification,
imagery

11. What is a poem that talks about feelings and emotions called?
Lyric poem

12. What is a poem that tells a story called?
Narrative poem

13. Name the device in the following example:
Hopefully, hannah’s heat is on.
alliteration

14. 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.
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15. 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