Q4 Assessment #2

Poetic Devices Lesson and Assessment

Objective: Students will demonstrate understanding of poetry by analyzing words, lines, phrases and their context in poems.

"Her fingers danced across the keys. She was a magician behind the piano." (general)

"Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul/"

​Metaphor (example)

a direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other

​Metaphor (definition)

Metaphor (definition and example)

Multiple Choice

What is being compared in the following passage from Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"? "Nature's first green is gold / Her hardest hue to hold"

• gold and green

• youth and precious metal

• newborns and octogenarians

• labor and sport

Multiple Choice

In the following passage, what two things is the metaphor comparing? "/Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul"

• fear is being compared to faith

• life is being compared to death

• hope is being compared to a bird

• hope is being compared to the beauty of the ocean

Multiple Choice

What is a metaphor?

• an outrageous exaggeration used for effect

• any figure of speech that was once clever but has become overused

• closely arranged things with strikingly different characteristics

• a direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other

Multiple Choice

What is being compared in the following example from Marianne Moore's "The Fish"?

"wade
through black jade.
       Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
       adjusting the ash-heaps;
              opening and shutting itself..."

• ash-heaps and mussel-shells

• dark water and black jade

• opening and shutting

• fish don't fry in the kitchen

"The days crept by slowly, sorrowfully." (general)

"So Eden sank to grief" -Nothing Gold Can Stay

​Example

Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.

​Definition

Personification (definition and example)

"Her eyes are like comets." (general)

"opening and shutting itself like / an / injured fan."
"The Fish" by Marianne Moore

​Example

a direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."

Defintion

Simile (definition and example)

Categorize

Options (7)

"A hook shot kisses the rim and / hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop"

"...stalled in the driveway -- swaying / at the wheel like a blind pianist caught in a tune"

The wind whispered through the trees, sharing secrets of the forest

The flowers danced in the gentle breeze, their petals swaying in harmony

The moonlight caressed the waves, painting a silver path on the water

The old house groaned and creaked, as if it had a life of its own

The river sang a soothing lullaby as it flowed gently downstream

Organize these responses into the proper category.

Personification 1

Simile

Connotation (Positive or Negative)

​Definition and Explanation

Connotation is the emotional, psychological, or social overtone of a word. Connotation is the emotion and/or judgment that we associate with the word. Connotation can be positive or negative.
For example, calling someone "cheap" carries a negative connotation. Saying that someone is "frugal" or "wise" with their money carries a positive connotation.

Multiple Choice

Read the poem "Speech to the Young..." by Gwendolyn Brooks and determine the connotation of "sun-slapper."

• positive

• negative

Multiple Choice

Read the poem "Speech to the Young..." by Gwendolyn Brooks and determine the connotation of "self-soiler."

• positive

• negative

Multiple Choice

Read the poem "Speech to the Young..." by Gwendolyn Brooks and determine the connotation of "down-keeper."

• positive

• negative

Multiple Choice

Read the poem "Speech to the Young..." by Gwendolyn Brooks and determine the connotation of "harmony-husher."

• positive

• negative

Multiple Choice

Read the poem "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur and determine the connotation of "...the rose that grew / from a crack in the concrete"

• positive

• negative