Poetic Device Questions

Directions: With a partner, answer the following questions in your notebook. You may place your answers under the notes you took yesterday or underneath the entry task from today.

1. Write the definition of “Simile” in your own words (Use Springboard).

2. Quote 2 similes from the poem “A Red, Red Rose”.

3. Explain what do the similes mean? Go deeper than what is on paper.

4. Write the definition of “Hyperbole” in your own words (Use Springboard).

5. Why is the poem, “A Red, Red Rose” a hyperbole on love? You may quote part of the

poem to aid your explanation.

6. Write the definition of “Onomatopoeia” in your own words (Use Springboard).

7. Quote two onomatopoeias from the poem “Noise Day”.

8. Why do you think the author uses Onomatopoeias to explain what is happening?

9. Write the definition of “Imagery” in your own words (Springboard)

10.Quote 1 line from the poem “Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter” that shows imagery.

11.Why does it show imagery?

12.Write the definition of “Symbol” in your own words (Springboard).

13.What does the path symbolize in the poem “The Road Not Taken”? Explain your

thinking.

14.In your opinion, what was the best poem in the class poetry packet? Explain why you

thought it was the best. (2-3 sentences)

Alliteration Organizer

Tree Toad

A tree toad loved a she-toad,

Who lived up in a tree.

He was a two-toed tree toad,

But a three-toed toad was she.

The two-toed tree toad tried to win,

The three-toed she-toad’s heart,

For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground,

That the three-toed tree toad trod.

But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.

He couldn’t please her whim.

From her tree toad bower,

With her three-toed power,

The she-toad vetoed him.

-Anonymous

Mr. See Owned a Saw

Mr. See owned a saw,

And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.

Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw

Before Soar saw See,

Which made Soar sore.

Had Soar seen See's saw

Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,

See's saw would not have sawed

Soar's seesaw.

So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.

But it was sad to see Soar so sore

Just because See's saw sawed

Soar's seesaw!

-Anonymous

From Fox in Sox

We’ll find something

new to do now.

Here is lots of

new blue goo now.

New goo. Blue goo.

Gooey. Gooey

Blue goo. New goo.

Gooey. Gooey

-Dr. Seuss

Betty Botter

Betty Botter bought some butter;

“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter!

If I put it in my batter

It will make my batter bitter

But a bit of better butter

Will but make my batter better.”

so she bought a bit of butter

Better than her bitter butter,

Made her bitter batter better.

So ’twas better Betty Botter

Bought a bit of better butter.

-Carolyn Wells

Ned Nott and Sam Shott

Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.

So it is better to be Shott than Nott.

Some say Nott was not shot.

But Shott says he shot Nott.

Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot,

Or Nott was shot.

If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.

But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,

Then Shott was shot, not Nott.

However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott

-Anonymous

Poem Title Alliteration typeEx: Fresh, Fresher, Freshest Ex: Fresher fish, Consonance (F sound)

Ex: Finish fish fry, Assonance (I sound)

Tree Toad

Italian Sonnet Questions

-Regular English

Ghost Town Memories

While wand ‘ring ghost town scenes of memories

Loose mind like shutters bang in channeled thoughts

Old haunting spirits restless and distraught

Now roam deserted streets like tumbleweeds

Dirt devils funnel, scattering dead seeds

As rattling chains of broken bonds stretch taut

Dark tortured faceless shadows, though not sought

Appear in screenless windows taunting me

Behind saloons in alleys where we played

Lie trash cans spilled of hope and broken dreams

Discarded remnants of relationships

Have all but disappeared from time's decay

Those youthful days spent by the sun-dried stream

Are now recalled in silent somberness

-Daniel Turner

1. Write the letters of the rhyme scheme at the beginning of each line. Does the poem “Ghost Town” follow the traditional Italian sonnet rhyme scheme?

2. What do you notice about the punctuation in the poem? How does this affect the way the poem is read?

3. What is the mood of the poem in the first 12 lines?

4. Does the mood shift in the last two lines (couplet) of the poem? If so, what mood does it shift to?

5. What is the poem about?

-Accelerated English

Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree

Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,

If lecherous goats, if serpents envious

Cannot be damn'd, alas, why should I be?

Why should intent or reason, born in me,

Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous?

And mercy being easy, and glorious

To God, in his stern wrath why threatens he?

But who am I, that dare dispute with thee,

O God? Oh, of thine only worthy blood

And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,

And drown in it my sins' black memory.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt;

I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

-John Donne

1. Write the letters of the rhyme scheme at the beginning of each line. Does the poem “Holy Sonnets” follow the traditional Italian sonnet rhyme scheme?

2. What is the author “disputing” about in lines 1-9?

3. What does the word “them” refer to in line 13?

4. What is the mood of the poem in the first 12 lines?

5. Does the Italian sonnet have a turn of thought in the last two lines (couplet) of the poem? Explain why or why not.

6. What is this poem about?

Haiku Questions

Haikus

I feel autumn rain

Trying to explain something

I do not want to know

Leaving the doctor,

The whole world looks different

This autumn morning.

This autumn evening

Is full of an empty sky

And one empty road.

My cold and damp feet

Feel as distant as the moon

On this autumn night

I am nobody:

A red sinking autumn sun

Took my name away.

In the falling snow

A laughing boy holds out his palms

Until they are white

Standing patiently,

The horse grants the snowflakes

A home on his back.

Tossing all day long,

The cold sea now sleeps deeply

On a bed of stars.

An apple blossom

Trembling on a sunlit branch

From the weight of bees.

A spring sky so clear

That you feel you are seeing

Into tomorrow.

-Richard Wright

1. Which stanzas do not follow the typical five, seven, five syllables?

2. Do the lines with more syllables play an extra important role in the poem? Explain why or why not.

3. Line four of the poem, “leaving the doctor,” is one of the few lines that do not describe nature. Why do you think the author included this line? Does it affect the meaning of the rest of the poem?

Haiku Imagery

Directions: Richard Wright is detailed in what he observes around him. Paying close attention to the imagery, illustrate the window below with the things you can “see” in the poem. If possible, include the stanza number next to each window section.

Shape Poem Questions

-Rosetti

1. What is the topic of the poem?

2. How does the author symbolize the topic? Why is the symbol fitting?

3. Identify the onomatopoeia.

4. Identify an example of personification.

5. Which words create an image in your mind? Find at least five words.

Ode Poetic Devices

Regular English

Ode to a Sausage:

O, sausage sizzling in your succulent fat.You disgust humanity's vegans and vegetarians,

Yet you dissolve in spite of themWithin the depths of my mouth.

Those who say you are nothing but crude fatIn a pigskin casing are blind to your salty sweet taste,

Your crispy softness,Your fierce fragrance.

Considered impure by many,You are the devil's tool of temptation—

A serpent of kielbasa.You are flavor incarnate.

Presidents have their nationsA boot has its confident shine,A world of imperfection has you.

--Jimmy Morril

Complete the graphic organizer below.

Poetic Devices: Examples:Personification 1.

Hyperbole 1.

2.

Metaphor 1.

2.

Imagery (sensory words) 1.

2.

3.

Accelerated English

Ode to Spring

Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours,

Fair Venus' train appear,

Disclose the long-expecting flowers,

And wake the purple year!

The Attic warbler pours her throat,

Responsive to the cuckoo's note,

The untaught harmony of spring:

While whisp'ring pleasure as they fly,

Cool zephyrs thro' the clear blue sky

Their gather'd fragrance fling.

Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch

A broader, browner shade;

Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech

O'er-canopies the glade,

Beside some water's rushy brink

With me the Muse shall sit, and think

(At ease reclin'd in rustic state)

How vain the ardour of the crowd,

How low, how little are the proud,

How indigent the great!

Still is the toiling hand of Care:

The panting herds repose:

Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air

The busy murmur glows!

The insect youth are on the wing,

Eager to taste the honied spring,

And float amid the liquid noon:

Some lightly o'er the current skim,

Some show their gaily-gilded trim

Quick-glancing to the sun.

To Contemplation's sober eye

Such is the race of man:

And they that creep, and they that fly,

Shall end where they began.

Alike the busy and the gay

But flutter thro' life's little day,

In fortune's varying colours drest:

Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance,

Or chill'd by age, their airy dance

They leave, in dust to rest.

Methinks I hear in accents low

The sportive kind reply:

Poor moralist! and what art thou?

A solitary fly!

Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets,

No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets,

No painted plumage to display:

On hasty wings thy youth is flown;

Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone—

We frolic, while 'tis May

-Thomas Gray

Complete the graphic organizer below.

Poetic Devices: Examples:Personification 1.

2.

Hyperbole 1.

2.

Metaphor 1.

2.

Imagery (sensory words) 1.

2.

3.

“The Raven” Questions

Read “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe on page 275-278 of SpringBoard and answer the following questions.

1. What is the narrator’s mood in stanzas 1-6? Provide textual evidence to support your answer.

2. Provide textual evidence that proves the narrator is becoming more and more upset or agitated.

3. In one or two sentences, summarize the poem of “The Raven”

4. Summarize the poem into one simple picture:

5. Record the letters of the rhyme scheme next to the first 13 lines (2 stanzas) of the poem.

6. Complete the chart below.

Poetic Device Example from the text and line numberAlliteration 1.

2.

3

Personification 1.

2.

Imagery 1.

2.

3.Symbol 1.

Internal rhyme 1.

2.

7. How does Poe use poetic devices to develop the poem?

Lyric Poetic Devices

Name: __________________________

Identify, label, and explain the type of figurative language or poetic device used in the song lyrics. Examples may include: imagery devices such as metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole; sound devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme; and rhetorical devices such as anaphora and epistrophe.

“Firework” by Katy Perry

Identify & Label the Poetic DevicesExplain the Poetic Devices Used

1. 1  Do you ever feel like a plastic bag2. 2  Drifting through the wind3. 3  Wanting to start again

4 Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin 5 Likeahouseofcards6 One blow from caving in

7. 7  Do you ever feel already buried deep8. 8  Six feet under scream9. 9  But no one seems to hear a thing

10. 10  Do you know that there's still a chance for you11. 11  ‘Cause there's a spark in you12. 12  You just gotta ignite the light13. 13  And let it shine14. 14  Just own the night15. 15  Like the Fourth of July

(Chorus)

16. 16  Cause baby you're a firework17. 17  Come on show 'em what you’re worth18. 18  Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"19. 19  As you shoot across the sky20. 20  Baby you're a firework21. 21  Come on let your colors burst22. 22  Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"23. 23  You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down

24. 24  You don't have to feel like a waste of space25. 25  You're original, cannot be replaced26. 26  If you only knew what the future holds27. 27  After a hurricane comes a rainbow

28. 28  Maybe you're the reason why all the doors are closed29. 29  So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road30. 30  Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow31. 31  And when it's time, you'll know32. 32  You just gotta ignite the light33. 33  And let it shine34. 34  Just own the night35. 35  Like the Fourth of July

(Repeat Chorus)36. 36  Boom, boom, boom37. 37  Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon38. 38  It's always been inside of you, you, you39. 39  And now it's time to let it through