Language Features of Poem

What figure of speech that is used ?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphore

• Imagery

• Figurative

Read the poem extract below.

Caged Bird

By Maya Angelou

But a caged BIRD stands on the grave of dreams

His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream

His wings are clipped and his feet are tied

So he opens his throat to sing.

Taken from: poetryfoundation.org

The figurative language that stands out in line 2 is ….

• irony

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Read the poem “Infant Sorrow” by William Blake below.

My mother groand! my father wept.

Into the dangerous world I leapt:

Helpless, naked, piping loud;

Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Struggling in my fathers hands:

Striving against my swaddling bands:

Bound and weary I thought best

To sulk upon my mothers breast.

Taken from: poetryfoundation.org

The figurative language used in the first stanza is ….

• metaphor

• irony

• hyperbole

• paradox

• simile

Read the poem “My heart beats for you” by Kelly Roper below.

One thousand stampeding bison thundering across the plains

Couldn't drown out the sound of my heart beating for you.

Its rhythm feeds the greatest symphony ever known to man,

Yet such life-transforming love is experienced by so few.

Taken from: examples.yourdictionary.com

The figurative language used in this poem is ….

• personification

• paradox

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• irony

Read the poem below.

Great Horned Owl

By Sallie Wolf

An owl once perched in my tree

at night (when most birds cannot see).

But when the sun rose,

he was found by some crows,

and their caws caused the owl to flee.

Adapted from: www.poetryfoundation.org

The language feature that can be found in the first line is ….

• the simple present

• an article

• an imperative sentence

• a demonstrative determiner

• an interrogative sentence

Sorrow

By Edna ST. Vincent Millay

Sorrow like a ceaseless rain

Beats upon my heart.

People twist and scream in pain,—

Dawn will find them still again;

This has neither wax nor wane,

Neither stop nor start.

People dress and go to town;

I sit in my chair.

All my thoughts are slow and brown:

Standing up or sitting down

Little matters, or what gown

Or what shoes I wear.

Taken from: poet.org

What figurative languages or elements of poems can be identified in the first line? They are ….

• personification and irony

• irony and imagery

• metaphor and simile

• simile and hyperbole

• onomatopoeia and hyperbole

Love and Friendship

Love is like the wild rose-briar,

Friendship like the holly-tree—

The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms

But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,

Its summer blossoms scent the air;

Yet wait till winter comes again

And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now

And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,

That when December blights thy brow

He still may leave thy garland green

The figure of speech of this poem is

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• irony

Love and Friendship

Love is like the wild rose-briar,

Friendship like the holly-tree—

The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms

But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,

Its summer blossoms scent the air;

Yet wait till winter comes again

And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now

And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,

That when December blights thy brow

He still may leave thy garland green

The analogy of love is .................

• the silly rose

• the holly-tree

• the wild rose-briar

• the holly's sheen

• the air

Love and Friendship

Love is like the wild rose-briar,

Friendship like the holly-tree—

The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms

But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,

Its summer blossoms scent the air;

Yet wait till winter comes again

And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now

And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,

That when December blights thy brow

He still may leave thy garland green

This poem has ............................ stanzas.

• five

• four

• three

• two

• one

Read the poem “Success Counted Sweetest” by Emily Dickinson.

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne’er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host

Who took the Flag today

Can tell the definition

So clear of victory

As he defeated – dying –

On whose forbidden ear

The distant strains of triumph

Burst agonized and clear!

Taken from: poetryfoundation.org

The stanzas in the poem are classified as ….

• couplet

• septed

• sestet

• quintain

• quatrain