Poetic devices 1
She holds long scissors like a claw
What is a simile.
Silence greets the morning awakening
What is personification.
Sweet sorrow
What is a oxymoron.
TRUE OR FALSE: Aboriginal, Indigenous, and First Peoples are used interchangeably.
What is TRUE.
My poems are my fires.
What is a metaphor.
gentle waves slap slap the sand
(not repetition)
What is onomatopoeia?
Freedom weeps, wrong rules the land, and waiting justice sleeps
What is personnification.
Name three Indigenous poets
Who are Thomas King, Rita Joe, Louise Halfe, etc.?
Is this a theme? "Actions speak louder than words."
What is NO. Themes are not orders, clichés, or summaries. Themes are general statements about human nature. They reveal the author's position on the subject of the poem.
I just sit there staring big eyed mute like an owl
What is a simile.
O west of wind, we wait for you.
What is alliteration.
I must be cruel only to be kind.
What is a paradox.
The legal term for a person of Indigenous descent in Canada.
What is Indian.
Describe the attitude: o gods forgive me all the things I've failed to do. the things I should have done.
Despair, anguish, grief, loss, regret
The crow-nun reaches and I flinch
What is a metaphor.
The sweet but reedy honking of geese
What is assonance.
Your eyes seem a million miles away.
What is a hyperbole.
Three main groups of Indigenous peoples in Canada
What is First Nations, Métis, and Inuit?
Paraphrase this stanza:
In me the Cherokee wars against yoneg (white)
I have college degrees (2)
pay my bills on time each month
on my wall is a photograph
of the Great Spirit
Possible answer:
I am of mixed-race (Indigenous and European)
I have Western (academic, economic) as well as Indigenous (spiritual) values
Name 3 poetic devices
just like sheep, they go in fat and fluffy, came out bald as babies, except all skinny and sick looking
What is extended metaphor, alliteration, simile?
"I think like you, I speak like you, I create like you"
identify the device and talk about its significance
Repetition: to emphasize and to draw attention...
3 pairs of oxymorons.
What is jumbo shrimp, honest politician, pretty ugly, burning cold
3 metaphors or symbols that Indigenous poets have used to describe cultural erasure/residential school experience.
What is haircut, graffiti, big pink eraser, talk, etc.?
Theme of "Self-Portrait: Microcosm, or Song of Mixed-Blood"
Possible answers: Being connected to one's past is an important part of identity. Poetry allows us to recover lost identity.