Poetic Forms and Devices

Identify the rhyme scheme in the poem below:

They put me in the oven to bake.

Me, a deprived and miserable cake.

Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.

Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.

• "The Life of a Cupcake," by Shelby Greer

• ABAB

• AABB

• AAAB

• ABAC

Identify the poetic device:

"You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes."

• "Thriller," by Michael Jackson

• Symbol

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

Identify the poetic device:

I feel glorious, glorious

Got a chance to start again

I was born for this, born for this

It's who I am, how could I forget?

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

• Personification

• Alliteration

Identify the poetic device:

Do you ever feeling like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?

• "Firework," by Katy Perry

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Simile

Identify the poetic device:

And [the tree] grew both day and night.

Until it bore an apple bright.

And my foe beheld its shine,

And he knew that it was mine.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Allusion

Identify the poetic device:

I was angry with my friend;

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears,

Night and morning with my tears:

And I sunned it with my smiles,

And soft, deceitful wiles.

• Rhymed tercet

• Extended metaphor

• Simile

• Apostrophe

Identify the poetic device:

Lucy loved licking limes.

• Personification

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Imagery

The stressed and unstressed pattern of syllables in a line of poetry is called ___.

• Rhyme Scheme

• Foot

• Beat

• Meter

A group of lines within a poem are referred to as a(n) ____.

• Paragraph

• Couplet

• Stanza

• Rhymed Tercet

Rhyme scheme is determined by a line(s) ___.

• Internal Rhyme

• Meter

• Onomatopoeia

• End Rhyme