Onomatopoeia EP
Where is onomatopoeia shown in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”?
“Hear the sledges with the bells--
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!”
What is “tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,”
EP
Where is the rhyme scheme in the first 8 lines in the given poem by Emily Dickinson,”In the garden”.
“A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all abroad,--
They looked like frightened beads, I thought; He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious…”
What is A,B,C,B,D,E,F,E?
VK
Identify alliteration.
“Sonnet 12” by William Shakespeare
"...bristly beard...
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake"
What is bristly beard, that thou, and since sweets?
JW
Identify rhyme or slanted rhyme
“To the Cuckoo” by William Wordsworth
“O blithe newcomer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice:
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?...”
What is the literary device within bird, heard, and rejoice, voice?
MGCM
Where is the repetition in Emily Dickinson’s “I cannot live with you”
“...And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's privilege?... ”
What is And?
LD
Where is onomatopoeia shown in Emily dickinson’s “I heard a fly buzz“?
“I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -...”
What is “buzz”?
EP
Identify the Rhyme scheme of“Neither out far nor deep “by Robert Frost
“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”
What is A,B,A,B,C,C,D?
VK
Identify Alliteration.
“The Siege of Belgrade” by Alaric Alexander Watts
“An Austrian array, awfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery, besieged Belgrade.
Cossack commanders, cannonading come…”
What is An Austrian array, awfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery, besieged Belgrade, Cossack commanders, and cannonading come.
JW
Identify rhyme or slanted rhyme
“The Moon” by Sappho
“The stars about the lovely moon
Fade back and vanish very soon,
When, round and full, her silver face
Swims into sight, and lights all space.”
What is the literary device of moon, soon and face, space?
MGCM
Where is the repetition in Ben Jonson’s “Simplex Munditiis”
“...Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast;
Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd:
Lady, it is to be presum'd,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound. … ”
What is Still/ to be?
LD
Where is onomatopoeia shown in Alfred Noyes “The Highwayman”?
“Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard.
He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred.
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
“But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair...”
What is “clattered and clashed”?
EP
Identify the rhyme scheme of “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri
“As I drew nearer to the end of all desire,
I brought my longing’s ardor to a final height,
Just as I ought. My vision, becoming pure,
Entered more and more the beam of that high light
That shines on its own truth. From then, my seeing
Became too large for speech, which fails at a sight… “
What is A B A B C?
BW
Identify an example of assonance.
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
“’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—
This it is and nothing more.”
What is purple/ curtain and entreating/ entrance?
JW
Identify rhyme or slanted rhyme
“By the Sea” by William Wordsworth
“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free;
The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity… “
What is an example of slanted rhyme or rhyme in this poem?
MGCM
Where’s the repetition in John Doone’s “The Dream”
“...But when I saw thou saw'st my heart,
And knew'st my thoughts beyond an angel's art,
When thou knew'st what I dreamt, when thou knew'st when
Excess of joy would wake me, and camest then,
I must confess, it could not choose but be
Profane, to think thee any thing but thee….”
What is knew’st?
LD
Where is onomatopoeia shown in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
“...Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
“Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you”—here I opened wide the door;—
Darkness there and nothing more...”
What is rapping and tapping?
Ep
Identify the rhythm in “Nature’s Way” By Heidi Campbell
“Upon a nice mid-spring day,
Let’s take a look at Nature’s way.
Breathe the scent of nice fresh air,
Feel the breeze within your hair.
The grass will poke between your toes,
Smell the flowers with your nose.
Clouds form shapes within the skies,
And light will glisten from your eyes.”
What is A A B B C C D D?
BW
Where is alliteration and assonance combined in this poem?
“My Puppy Punched me in the Eye” by Ken Nesbitt
My puppy punched me in the eye.
My rabbit whacked my ear.
My ferret gave a frightful cry
and roundhouse kicked my rear.
My lizard flipped me upside down.
My kitten kicked my head.
My hamster slammed me to the ground
and left me nearly dead.
What is puppy punched?
JW
Identify rhyme or slanted rhyme
“The Waning Moon” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky east,
A white and shapeless mast.”
What is an example of slanted rhyme such as pale and veil?
MGCM
Where is the repetition in an excerpt from Edgar Allen Poe’s “Alone”
“...My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone….”
What is My?
LD
Where is onomatopoeia shown in Robert Browning’s “ The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
“Rats!
They fought the dogs, and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats,
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats...”
What is shrieking and squeaking?
EP
Identify rhythm in
“The One” By Crystal R. Adame
“The one who brought me down to earth,
And held me every day.
The one who gracefully gave me birth,
And said, I love you in every way.
The one who taught me everything,
Like how to crawl and walk.
The one who taught me how to sing
After learning how to talk. “
What is A B A B C D C D?
BW
What notable letter and its sound are an example of assonance in the following excerpt?
“In a Garden” by Amy Lowell
Splashing down moss-tarnished steps
It falls, the water;
And the air is throbbing with it;
With its gurgling and running;
With its leaping, and deep, cool murmur.
And I wished for night and you.
I wanted to see you in the swimming-pool,
White and shining in the silver-flecked water.
What is long E in leaping and deep or long I in white and shining?
JW
Identify rhyme or slanted rhyme
“To a Young Girl” by William Butler Yeats
“My dear, my dear, I know
More than another
What makes your heart beat so;
Not even your own mother
Can know it as I know,
Who broke my heart for her
When the wild thought,
That she denies
And has forgot,
Set all her blood astir
And glittered in her eyes.”
What is an example of slanted rhyme such as so and know?
MGCM
Where is the repetition in Catullus’ poem “Catullus 62”
“The evening is come, rise up, ye Vesper from Olympus
now at last is just raising his long-looked-for light.
Now is it time to rise, now to leave the rich tables;
now will come the bride, now will the Hymen-song be sung.
Hymen, O Hymenaeus, Hymen, hither, O Hymenaeus!
See ye, maidens, the youths? Rise up to meet them.
For sure the night-star shows his Oetaean fires.
So it is indeed; see you how nimbly they have sprung up?
it is not for nothing that they have sprung up: they will sing something which it is worth while to look at.
Hymen, O Hymenaeus, Hymen, hither, O Hymenaeus!...”
What is Hymen, O Hymenaeus, Hymen, hither, O Hymenaeus?
LD