Silver: Walter de la Mare

1. What do we call this poetic device, when found at the end of lines of verse:

moon and shoon; gleam and stream?

• rhythm

• consonance

• rhyme

• assonance

Poems leave the reader with a feeling or with emotion. This is called the _____ of the poem:

• diction

• mood

• tone

• assonance

The poem Silver is mainly about:

• pictures of a dog in a kennel

• night falling over animals

• images of a dark night

• the moon shining on nature

Give the rhyme scheme for the entire poem:

• aabbccddeeffgg

• abcdefg

• ababcdcdefef

• abcabcdefdef

How many stanzas are there in this poem?

• one

• two

• seven

• fourteen

Name this poetic device: "silver reeds in a silver stream"

• assonance

• alliteration

• rhyme

• personification

Which figure of speech is this: "this way and that, she peers"

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• personification

"Crouched in his kennel, like a log" is an example of

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

• assonance

Give one word to describe the setting of this poem:

• rural

• urban

• city

• coastal

Who is awake in this poem?

• fish

• mouse

• dog

• doves