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Sound Devices
FigurativeLanguage
Poetry Forms
ConnotativeDenotative Misc.
Identify the alliteration:
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life / To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life / To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife
Identify the onomatopoeia:
Sling your knuckles on the bottoms of the happy tin pans, let your trombones ooze, and go husha-husha-hush with the slippery sand-paper.
Sling your knuckles on the bottoms of the happy tin pans, let your trombones ooze, and go husha-husha-hush with the slippery sand-paper.
What literary device is used in the following lines of poetry?
What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the sun?
This term describes the literary device where one subject is
being represented or replaced by another
Name the literary device being used in the following
line:
I've got gold mines /Diggin' in my own backyard
Identify the repetition:
Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room / Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, /
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, /
Pounded on the table, / Beat an empty barrel with the
handle of a broom, / Hard as they were able / Boom, boom,
BOOM
How many stanzas appear below?
I'm Nobody! Who are you?Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
Identify the rhyme scheme:
Bid me to weep, and I will weepWhile I have eyes to see;
And having none, and yet I will keep
A heart to weep for thee.
Name a literary devices that exists in the following lines:
The flame-red moon, the harvest moon, / Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing, / A vast balloon
DAILY DOUBLE!!DAILY DOUBLE!!Paraphrase the following quote:
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same
once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the
shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of
himself and the world around him.”