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POETIC DEVICES
POEMS AS EXAMPLES
IMAGERY
NAME THE POEM
HODGEPODGE
100
An extreme exaggeration
What is HYPERBOLE?
100
Name the device: "Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. " -Tennyson Blow Bugles Blow
What is ALLITERATION
100
What type of Imagery is predominant: "Behold the silvery river—in it the splashing horses, loitering, stop to drink; Behold the brown-faced men—each group, each person, a picture—the negligent rest on the saddles; Some emerge on the opposite bank—others are just entering the ford—while, 5 Scarlet, and blue, and snowy white, The guidon flags flutter gaily in the wind. " -Walt Whitman Cavalry Crossing a Ford
What is Visual (Sight)?
100
"We swung our ropes slowly and rattled our spurs lowly, And gave a wild whoop as we carried him on, For we all loved our comrade, so brave, young and handsome, We all loved our comrade, although he'd done wrong."
What is The Dying Cowboy?
100
What is a poem that is not written in a set rhyme or meter called?
What is BLANK VERSE?
200
A comparison using the words "like" or "as"
What is SIMILE
200
"I heard a fly BUZZ when I died..." -Emily Dickinson I Heard a Fly Buzz
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
200
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near;" -Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
What is Auditory (HEARING)?
200
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold:..."
What is The Cremation of Sam McGee
200
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem by William Wordsworth: The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon
What is A-B-B_A
300
A poetic device in which the word sounds like it is spelled.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. -Carl Sandburg The Fog
What is PERSONIFICATION?
300
"Come buy, come buy: Our grapes fresh from the vine, Pomegranates full and fine, Dates and sharp bullaces, Rare pears and greengages, Damsons and bilberries, Taste them and try: " -Christina Georgina Rossetti Goblin Market
What is TASTE?
300
"Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church , By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread, To the belfry chamber overhead, And startled the pigeons from their perch On the somber rafters, that roung him made Masses and moving shapes of shade..."
What is The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
300
What type of poem is this an example of: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What is A SONNET?
400
A comparison NOT using like or as.
What is a METAPHOR?
400
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace." -Elizabeth Barret Browning Sonnet 43 from Sonnets of the Portoguese
What is HYPERBOLE?
400
"The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, " -Theodore Roethke My Papa's Last Dance
What is TACTILE (Touch)?
400
"They were just meant as covers in winters as weapons against pounding january winds but it was just that every morning I awoke to these october ropened canvases passed my hand across their cloth faces and began to wonder how you pieced all these together..."
What is My Mother Pieced Quilts?
400
A pop song would be closest to what type of poem?
What is a BALLAD?
500
A poetic device in which a word stands for itself and something else.
What is a SYMBOL?
500
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. " -William Shakespear Sonnet 18
What is A COUPLET?
500
"Is it perfume from a dress that makes me so digress?" -T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J Alfred Prufock
What is OLFACTORY (SMELL)?
500
"You can't order a poem like you order a taco. Walk up to the counter, say, 'I'll take two'" and expect it to be handed back to you on a shiny plate
What is Valentine for Ernest Mann
500
Name the Rhyme Scheme of Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach: The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand; Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
What is A-B-A-D--B-D-C