Poetry Unit 4

Identify the rhyme scheme in the following poem:If We Must Die
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Marking their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Claude McKay, 1889-1948

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Consider the following poem:
Symphony in Yellow
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge.Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moored against the shadowy wharf,
And like a yellow silken scarf,
The thick fog hangs along the quay.The yellow leaves begin to fade
And flutter from the Temple elms,
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
What literary device is used in every stanza?

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification
• simile

Consider the following poem:
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman, 1819-1892
Whitman's poem is written in what style?

• sonnet
• haiku
• free verse
• terza rima

Shakespeare is most famous for this style of poetry.

• sonnet
• sestina
• ballad
• limerick

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Metaphor
• Sound
• Onomotopoeia
• Rhythm 

Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things
• exaggerate
• give person-like qualities to animals and things
• have a different meaning than the words.

Our feet squished in the mud.

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• none

"Victoria vrooms in the van very vivaciously." is an example of...

• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration
• hyperbole

Give an example of personification

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse
• The sun is like a light bulb
• The Sun smiled at us
• I want to be awesome

Which one of these could be a personification?

• He is as slow as a turtle
• The tornado ran through town without a care
• BOOM!!
• I'm just too lazy to pick another answer