Characteristics
Poetic Device Definitions
Guess the Poem
Name that Poetic Device
Facts from the Poems
100
A narrative poem tells this.
What is a story?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
"And I turned my head--and there watching him was the lady that's known as Lou."
What is "The Shooting of Dan McGrew?"
100
"The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead."
What is personification?
100
This Great Lake is where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank.
What is Lake Superior?
200
Typically, the beginning of a narrative poem is this.
What is abrupt?
200
Giving lifelike qualities to non-living things.
What is personification?
200
"And a whooping billow swept the crew / Like icicles from her deck."
What is "The Wreck of the Hesperus?"
200
"Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax"
What is a simile?
200
In "The Wreck of the Hesperus," the Skipper froze to death because he did this.
What is Give his coat to his daughter?
300
A typical rhyme scheme of many narrative poems.
What is "abcb" or "abab?"
300
A repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words.
What is alliteration?
300
"The breakers were right beneath her bows, / She drifted a weary wreck,"
What is "The Wreck of the Hesperus?"
300
"rubbering round the room"
What is alliteration?
300
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew" is set in this historical time and place.
What is the Klondike?
400
This is often repeated throughout the poem.
What is a refrain?
400
A repetition of the vowel sounds in two or more words.
What is assonance?
400
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes / When the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
What is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?"
400
"And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, / On the Lake of Galilee."
What is an allusion?
400
In "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," this character ends up with poke of gold.
Who is Lou?
500
The narrator usually does not offer this.
What is commentary / insight ?
500
A reference to a well-known story or work of literature.
What is an allusion?
500
"Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear?"
What is "The Shooting of Dan McGrew?"
500
"And every man knew, as the Captain did too"
What is assonance?
500
The number of sailors who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
What is 29?
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