Poem Structure
What is the title and author?
The Coming of Spring by Nora Perry
What is the subject of this poem?
Spring/changing seasons
36. What does drift mean in line 30?
C. a large pile of snow
What figurative language device is used in this example? "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before"
Alliteration
What figurative language device is used in this example? "The stars are like a million glittering diamonds in the sky"
Simile
How many lines are in the poem?
Name a line with repetition.
Line 10: "'Tis winter, winter still"
Line 31: "The long days gain and gain"
Line 33: "Once more, and yet once more"
32. Which lines from the poem provide the strongest support for the theme of renewal?
D. “We see the bloom of birth / Make young again the earth.”
What figurative language device is used in this example? "The machine click clacked over the sound of even the thoughts in her head "
Onomatopoeia
What figurative language device is used in this example? "The sun is a runny egg yolk"
Metaphor
How many stanzas are in the poem?
9
Name a possible theme in this poem.
Renewal, rebirth/renaissance, new beginnings, hope/growth
34. What can be inferred from lines 5–6?
C. The speaker thinks the shade of blue in the spring sky is different than that of a winter sky.
What figurative language device is used in this example? "We stand, as one. We fall, as one. We rise again, as one."
Repetition
What figurative language device is used in this example? "The house stands tall and rigid, with its windows glaring at me as I walk by"
Personification
What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
AABB
What sound device is used in these lines: "a whirr as if of wings," "bud and bloom. . .," and ". . . laugh and leap"
Alliteration
33. How does the first stanza contribute to the meaning of the poem?
A. It introduces the idea that a difference can be felt all around
What figurative language device is used in this example? "Round us bark the mad and hungry dogs/Making their mock. . ."
Consonance
What figurative language device is used in this example? "Let me fix it up. This old car is about to meet its fairy godmother and end up at the ball in a ballgown and glass slippers."
Allusion
How do the ideas build from the first to last stanza?
The first stanza introduces the season change and everything builds to the last stanza describing what the season change means (theme)
Name another piece of figurative language used in the poem.
Answers will vary.
35. Which lines reveal the speaker’s contrasting perspectives regarding winter and spring?
D. “And tomorrow or today / The brooks will break away / From their icy, frozen sleep / And run and laugh and leap.”
What figurative language device is used in this example? "The thoughts whirled and twirled and swirled until / They stopped."
Varying line length
What figurative language device would be used in an image of a butterfly landing on a skull?
Juxtaposition