Poetic Devices Worksheet



Poetic Devices Worksheet – Define each of the following words. Then look at the examples and process the connection between the examples and the definition. Then find your own example and explain why your example fits the definition. The goal is for you to be comfortable identifying and analyzing these terms in a text without looking them up.Poetic DeviceDefinitionExampleMy Own Exampleend-stoppedAunt Victoria frowned and pronounced,Tarragon. No one disagreed.enjambment. . .We spin and spin back to the villages of our mothers’ mothers. We leave behind the men, a white blur like moonlight on empty bajra fields seen from a speeding train. refrainsee Poe's use of "nothing more" and "Nevermore" in "The Raven"alliteration I am your son, amá, seeking the security of shadows, assonanceThe Lotos blooms below the barren peak:The Lotos blows by every winding creek:All day the wind breathes low with mellower toneThro' every hollow cave and alley lone,Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotos-dust is blown.consonance So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.onomatopoeiaThe moan of doves in immemorial elms,And murmuring of innumerable bees.rhymeDo not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. DeviceDefinitionExampleMy Own ExamplesimileIn the spring our palms peeled like snakes.metaphorTheir high keening is an electric net pulling us in, girls who have never seen the old land. . .symbolall I wanted was to be one of those hybrid ornamental plumswhose blossoms are sweet and gloriousbut fall to the groundwithout ever bearing fruit. hyperboleHere once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.personificationNothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch,Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the dark,metonymyAs if to prove saws knew what supper meant, Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap—. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . As he swung toward them holding up the handHalf in appeal, but half as if to keepThe life from spilling.allusionI got into a thingwith someonebecause I called hermiss ann/kennedy/rockerfeller/hughesinstead of ms.apostropheMilton! thou should'st be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen,DeviceDefinitionExampleMy Own Exampledichotomygood vs evil, heaven vs hell, real vs imaginarydictionTypes of dictionFormal , non-formal, slang, colloquialismFunction of dictionmotifpoints of view ................
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