Figurative Language
Identify this figurative language device:
"O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune." -- "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns
Simile
Identify this poetic sound device:
"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered, weak and weary." -- "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
Alliteration
What is the difference between connotation and denotation?
Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word.
Connotation refers to all associated or implied meanings of a word.
Identify what type of stanza this is:
"They are all gone away,
The House is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say."
Tercet
Identify the poetic sound device:
"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."
Assonance - repeated vowel sounds within a line.
Identify the figurative language device:
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’ other do.
And though it in the center sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Conceit - an extended metaphor with complex logic or a startling comparison.
Identify this poetic sound device:
"I heard a fly buzz -- when I died" - Emily Dickinson
Onomatopoeia
Identify the miscellaneous poetic device used here:
"Here by the rose-tree
they planted once
of love in Jeopardy
an Italian bronze." -- "Love in Jeopardy"" Humbert Wolfe
Inversion - A technique in which the normal order of words is reversed.
What type of poem has 14 lines, is usually written in Iambic Pentameter, and has four main types that are separated by rhyme scheme?
Sonnet
What type of poetic device is used to create a pause in the middle of a line?
Caesura
Identify the figurative language device:
"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--." - "Bright Star" by John Keats
Apostrophe
Identify this poetic sound device:
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear, and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling) --" I Carry Your Heart With Me" by e.e. cummings
Enjambment
Identify the miscellaneous poetic device:
"The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere." – Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Allusion - a brief and direct reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.
What are the only two feet that have three syllables in them?
Anapest (- - /)
Dactyl (/ - -)
What type of meter and foot is the following line?
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Iambic pentameter
Identify the figurative language device:
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." - Animal Farm, George Orwell
Paradox
Identify this poetic sound device:
"Some feel rain. Some feel the beetle startle
in its ghost-part when the bark
slips. Some feel music. Asleep against
each other in the whiskey dark, scarcely there." -- "Some Feel Rain," by Joanna Kirk
Anaphora - a type of refrain device, where the first word or phrase is repeated in a series of lines.
Identify the miscellaneous poetic device:
"An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils,
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!" -- "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath
Symbol - all are symbols of a pregnant woman
Identify the rhyme scheme and then identify the type of poem below:
An epicure dining at Crewe
Found a rather large mouse in his stew.
Said to the waiter, "Don't shout
And wave it about
Or the rest will be wanting one too."
AABBA - Limerick
What type of sonnet is this?
ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
Spenserian Sonnet
Identify these two figurative language devices:
1. Using "The Crown" as a symbol to represent the British Monarchy
2. "As he swing toward them holding up the hand / Half in appeal, but half as if to keep / the life from spilling." -"Out, Out--" by Robert Frost
1. Synecdoche - using the part for the whole
2. Metonymy - using something closely related for the thing actually meant
Identify this poetic sound device:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was teh age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity...." -A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Juxtaposition - the act of placing two or more things side by side to compare or contrast something, or to create an interesting effect.
What poetic device refers to the emotional meaning behind lines of poetry?
Tone
What is a 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and one quatrain with the following rhyme scheme - A1 b A2 a b A1 a b A2 a b A1 a b A2 a b A1 A2
Villanelle
Give the names for each of these stanza types
2 lines
3 lines
4 lines
5 lines
6 lines
7 lines
8 lines